Melia Madrid Princesa

... we are much relieved. He seems really cool, and just keeps telling us that he loves Duke students and can't wait to give us good grades. It turns out that our only "work" for the semester is to read a book of our choosing and go in and talk to him about it for 20 minutes, just to tell him what we thought. Liz and I thank him and leave, and the moment we get into the hall, we burst out laughing. Ladies and gentleman, we are DEFINITELY not in Kansas anymore. <br>

... was important for us to see albeit relatively depressing at the same time. Stop #3: La Granja (Farm)-Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso This palace, which also feautes normally lush gardens, is the site of the baroque palace set in gardens in the French manner and sculptural fountains, that was built for Philip V of Spain. I use the word normally above since on a normal March 28, the weather would have been beautiful, providing a majestic viewing of ...

... We then took a walk to the Reina Sofia Museum. Some of the paintings were excellent &amp; others were silly. After an hour, we had some fries at Mc Donald's &amp; went to the Prado Museum. The queue was short, yet it took us more than an hour to get inside it. The museum was worth the wait as there were antique paintings as old as 1000 yrs, yet they seemed to be freshly painted. The arts of masters like Picasso ...

... 02.40....nota che erano le 22.00. Cosa cazzo faccio per 4 ore e mezza in aereoporto???? Uno smarronamento totale, negozi chiusi, un piccolo fast food che serviva tramezzini preconfezionati.....due palle cubiche!!!!!! Avro' fatto avanti e indietro per il terminal una decina di volte...uno smarronamento totale!!!!!! Finche' finalmente arriva la fatidica ora, tutti in coda per l'imbarco, controllo documenti e via, finalemte si parte.

... We did not get to see it, since it was closed for upkeep. El Escorial contains the tombs from many of Spain´s kings and queens. It is located in the Guadarrama mountains. It is a quaint little town that I love to visit. Like many of the other places we have visited, you can no longer take photos inside. After El Escorial, we had lunch at Italian restaurnt we found near the bus station. We were the only two patrons at first. After a few minutes ...

... good, fortunately we had been around the day before, and the program was now to visit museums. Classical, the Museo del Prado was our first choice. Velasquez everywhere, but the collections are very well presented. Once in a while it can happen: I was not in a museum mood at all, and even less so to see the masterpieces of classical Spanish art. Shame. Clement was the same, so we walked out less than two ...

... east anti-socialness (which I must admit I like sometimes). How many times have you walked by someone who lives on your floor or in your building or that you've had for class and you know exactly who they are, seen them several times before and you TOTALLY just walk by them without saying ANYTHING. How awkward are we?!!!! We don't say ANYTHING. We pretend they don't exist. I felt awkward for a bit saying high to random people in my building, but then the day an American came almost ...

... that they had changed their minds and decided to only have the market on Sundays. We were sort of bummed out, but it was fine because we had a nice walk around that part of town. We then decided to take the metro to the bus station so we could reserve our seats on the 2pm bus back to Sevilla. When we got to the bus station, however, brain-dead me had forgotten my bus ticket, so after Cindy reserved her seat, we had to go all the way back to the hostel to get mine! By this point ...

Finally, warmer weather. I get off the plane, on to the metro and out the door into the rain! Madrid is a lovely city, very lively at night. And it is interesting just to walk around and see all the buildings. And the shopping! I have not managed to do a lot of sightseeing. I have needed to make travel arrangements for when I move on and this has taken me a longer time (much) than it would have been at home with the language barrier. People ...

Hola! (it's Devon) Well as I sit here writing this, Sarah is probably checking into flights to Brazil. No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, I did indeed say Brazil. We have just spent the last couple of days hanging out with a bunch of Brazilian guys from our hostel here in Madrid. My stomach has literally been killing me from laughing so much. Somehow I don't think the hilarity ...