Melia Madrid Princesa

... ran into Steve, Raf and Alex. After walking around a bit Steve showed us this place that makes open face bocadillas (grinders) with basically any type of meet/fish/cheese you could want. I got a tortilla and chicken cutlet one. Laura had salmon since she's a vegetarian. They have everything at this place. There speciality is small eels on a sandwich. Looked gross to me, but people seemed to love it. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon in Plaza Mayor sitting, talking, and drinking ...

... guidebook's advice and tried to stick with the Spanish masters rather than seeing everything the museum has to offer - it would otherwise be completely overwhelming. The map booklet makes it easy to find both the artists and specific masterpieces (though I couldn't find a Rembrandt I was looking for). I hit up the Goyas, Velásquezs, Murillos, and Boscos, and after a few hours, was ...

... may seem anti-climactic to turn 21 in a country where drinking is legal at 18, it felt truly special at this point to have my mom and brother as well as all my friends in Madrid to celebrate with me. Age ain't nothing but a number as they say. Though I guess I will always be able to say/remember, "I loved celebrating my 21st in Madrid; it's an experience I'll always remember." After the bar, Chad, my friends, and I headed towards a club called Joy, which is ...

... according one of our friends called Casa Lucas on Calle de la Cava Baja. We had delicious olives, which I think both of us have forgotten to mention in a while (the green ones here in Spain are just so flavorful, delicious......yummy!!!). We hit a few other tapas bars, visited a few bars and danced the night away and before we knew it, it was 4:30am when we went to bed. We had an amazing time with Anna, Maty and Antonio - thanks to them for a great night in Madrid!!  

... the break and after the show and she insisted that we took pictures to take with us. She was recommending restaurants to us and talking to us about all sorts of things. We were all glad that we went...Shajine is even going to go see her when she goes to DC in the near future! She really can sing! Regardless of the fact that we didn't get home until 2:30 in the morning, again, it was all worth it!

... I've already covered the craziness that is Spanish directions. Not only are they bad at telling us where to go, they also don't tell us where anything is. Example: I had a conference for auxiliares de conversacion on Monday that was supposed to take place at the Delegation of Education. (wherever that is) That's all they told us. That there was a meeting at this "Delegation" and it started at 9. Now, how are we supposed to know where that is? Some ...

We arrived in Madrid at 2.30, and checked into our hostel and headed for a traditional late Spanish lunch. Paella and Sangria was on the menu. The arrived at the bullring at 6.45pm., just before the bullfight started. We were really lucky to to get €10 euro tickets high ...

It is never good to be woken up out of a sound sleep by the train conductor, but 1:45am is especially bad. Yelling in Spanish... something about disembarking in Cordoba. Was I dreaming? Are we in Argentina alrerdy? Wow, it took a few minutes to realize I was not dreaming and there was a serious problem with our train. We arrive in Cordoba and were hearded onto buses for a 1 hour ride to a small ...

... day has been amazing....My poor attempt at studying Spanish last year, and a cramming session on the flight over here paid off. I managed to string together a sentence or two to an Asian tobacconist in teh middle of Madrid asking for directions to a street that didn´t exist. After checking into a hostel near the ´´Opera¨ area it was time to look for some native cuisine. After 2 hours of aimless walking I got my self to Puerto del Sol (touristville) where off ...

... the olympic stadium, but they´re renting it while there new ground is being constructed..After all that we made it to the top where the castle is, walked,talked,and essentialy set the world straight while we polished of two thermos´s of mate!! To La Sagrada Famila I went with my aunt, honestly the outside of it didnt do much for me, but the inside was truly captivating.....Saturday night I hit the town with my cousins and some of there friends, we went to a ...