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Oktoberfest!

A travel blog entry by seanconn520

... there were four of us to a very small tent so what would otherwise had been an uncomfortable experience ended up being a saving grace. We woke Sunday morning, had a light breakfast to take a miserable flight home. When I got home all I wanted to do was sleep but I had a large amount of homework to complete so I only got eight hours (when I needed like 20) before school this morning.

Due to either the cold, lack of sleep, or just the toll Oktoberfest took I ...

Madrid

A travel blog entry by trevorrose

... parked up! We joined the crowds and walked to the remains ancient of a Roman built aqua-duct, which runs through the towns main square! It was about sixty metres high - god knows how they managed to construct a waterway like that back in the twelfth century!!! It was only about ninety minutes from there to Madrid and we made it in good time driving through a new six kilometre underground city bypass! Hello??? Isn't this place supposed to be broke?? We had just ...

Spring Break!! Stop Two: Madrid

A travel blog entry by mere.gip

... off by explaining that over 50% of Madrid's population isn't natives. This made the language barrier a little more bearable!

After our tour we checked into our hostel and embraced the Spanish culture with a nice long siesta. When we woke up, we went to an authentic flamenco dancing performance. It was really neat. We took it easy that night in Madrid even though we heard there is a pretty ...

My Birthday

A travel blog entry by allaroundglobe

... pretty ***********e point we insisted on going into every bar we saw and ordering a drink. We started in the Sol area of town. This area is very touristy, but I got to buy some nice shades! I have now bought eberything I wanted while in Europe. Only thing left, which was an added item, is shoes.

We got home around 3am and crashed until 11am. A much needed night of passing ...

Toros

A travel blog entry by tinyisgreat

... row after row. They sell ya a cushion for a euro or so... we ended up getting a couple.

The bullfighting... Okay, call me naive, but I really didn�t think they still hurt and killed the bulls. Well, they DO in MADRID. Chris and I didn�t make it the entire time... There�s 3 toreros (the main guys in the fight) and they each fight two bulls. The first two fights we were still interested and trying to ...