Persal Madrid

... for a little bit. I then got ready to meet everyone for tapas :-) I went for tapas with Rita and Hilda (both whom I met at the hostel). Rita is a guidance counselor in San Diego and Hilda is a law student too, also a rising 3L, going to some school in D.C., originally from L.A., and working here in Madrid for the summer. We went to this tapas bar that Rita knew, and it was a lot of fun. We got some sangria and split some tapas ...

... to meet me at our Hostel soon. I got myself ready, my skinny jeans on, my black top, and then a green and colored jacket that I got from Ann Taylor from back home with my black new shoes, high heel boots! Because it was cold out, I also wore my black coat over it, with a scarf. About a half an hour later (or less) someone rang up and I got really excited, left the room and when David and Antonio came into the Hostel, my heart fluttered for a moment. I had not seem ...

... monuments and fountains but sadly we have no idea what they´re honouring. We basically just wandered the streets around where we are staying to familiarise ourselves with our surroundings and there was heaps going on. A lot of bums, street performers (though not as many as on Las Ramblas in Barcelona) and souvenir shops. All in all it was a tiring but good day. The next day, based on a recommendation from our Lonely Planet guidebook, we headed out to Goya in search of ...

... professors Dr. Alicia Ramos and Dr. Aitor Bikandi, along with the dean Dr. Angeles Encinar. The university has changed so much since I graduated in 2006. Loyola Hall, where I used to stay, is no longer a residence hall. It is now a library. Students now have to live off campus in apartments. The small cafeteria/dining hall that used to be in the basement has been expanded. The whole bottom floor is now a cafeteria ...

... figured we'd do the same even though one agent we asked told us that we could go downstairs to the "transfer desk" and inquire there. The funny thing is everyone from our flight had these yellow cards to give the immigration guy that apparently they handed out on the airplane, but we were sleeping and didn't get them. No one ever asked for them so we'll see what happens when we try to leave the E.U. next week without them. We went through immigration and ended up ...

... for the night, but she just gave me one and apologized that she didn't have a nicer one. She explained that, because of the rain, the other towels were still wet. I thanked her several times, just happy to have a towel. I went to bed and set my alarm to 8 because I needed to find out how to take a bus to Granada the next morning. I wanted to arrive early because Granada was the one place I hadn't found a room for yet, and I

... seems simple now. Just on Friday I will have to get the second tetanus and b hepatitis vaccination. I have the flight tickets and the US dollars (finally I decided to ask for 600 US$). The backpack is close with everything inside ... even my toothbrush, so I need to buy a new one!!! Of course, I am not going to open it, it could be impossible to close it agai

... blah, blah"), I decided on this style as I found it much more fun to write and hopefully also more interesting for you guys who have actually bothered to check out my blog. This does of course mean that there's a whole lot that happened during my trip that actually never made the blog. Surprise, surprise. For example, I stayed about ten days in Cali back in January 2005, but if you have read my blog entry from Cali it may sound like all I managed to do was a taxi ride ...

... would charge me for another night at the hostel from hell(Did I mention everyone in the hostel had to evacuate the building between 1030 and 1330 for them to clean it). I settled at Los Amigos Sol Hostel near the Plaze de Sol. So far so good except I am now in a 12 bed dorm room. One thing I noticed about hostels so far is they all have individual lockers in the room. What a great leap forward in innovation. Finally. I met a guy who ...