Day 20-26
It's been a long time since we've written...
Day 3 in Madrid. I don't remember exactly what we did today. We had lunch with Andre at his dorm for free every day, and dinner there too sometimes. They had a buffet where you can get whatever you want from what they have. Hannah was sick, but Andre and I went out for drinks.
Day 4 in Madrid. We had a pastry almost every day. We got Thai food for lunch and then the best dessert ever!!! It was a waffle cone dipped in chocolate and then filled with chocolate mousse!!!!!!!! Yeah... Yum. We did a ton of walking again, and got a Gofre with Andre. I don't know why we don't have gofres in the states, or maybe we do, but it's a freshly made waffle with ice-cream and chocolate sauce on top! Freakin awesome!!!!! We walked about 10 miles.
Day 5 in Madrid. We walk about 5 to 10 miles every day. Really hot today, sunny and beautiful! Hannah bought 2 Spanish magazines so we can practice our Spanish. We also went to see a Spanish comedy movie with Andre called "Para Que Sirve un Oso?", which translates to "For what purpose does a bear serve?". We understood a little, but it was still funny and cool seeing a movie in a different language. No subtitles by the way.
p.s. We bought our Eurail pass today and a bunch of our train passes. We are flying to Barcelona from Madrid, €100, which is actually the cheapest we could find. 9 nights in Barcelona. Then Eurail from Barcelona to Valencia, 4 nights. Separate train from Valencia to Alacante, 2 nights. Eurail from Alacante to Sevilla, 2 nights in a cheap hotel with Andre. Eurail from Sevilla to Bilbao, 3 nights in a hostel with Andre again. Then Eurail back to Madrid for our last 3 nights in Spain!
Day 6 in Madrid. Saturday so Andre had the day off. We spent €15 on food for a picnic (baguettes, tomatoes, pesto, lettuce, avocados, strawberries, cookies, cucumber, goat cheese wrapped in Brie, and water), and then had the most epic picnic in the park!!! It was so yummy! We got some martinis at a really cool bar later that night.
Day 7 in Madrid. Andre took us to an awesome flea market that took up probably like 10 or more blocks. We saw everything from batteries to phone chargers, antiques to souvenirs, foods to animal skins, knives to candle sticks, and on and on. Then we went to and art museum that was 4 floors and had tons of awesome paintings, Picasso and Salvador Dali, and many others. It was really cool.
Day 8 in Madrid + day 1 in Barcelona. Hannah and I checked out of our hostel and dropped our stuff at Andre's and then got spring rolls and a coffee before Andre got off school at 1:00. We had free lunch with him at his dorms and then he took us to the airport for our flight to Barcelona! We got quite lost trying to find our hostel and walked around for 2 hours. We did find it though. We got some sandwich stuff from a grocery store and had a nice dinner :) and went to bed.
Day 2 in Barcelona. So much to write about! The architecture here is amazing, everything is just so elegant. We had a café con hielo, espresso with ice, with a little milk at a nice cafe. I picked up Hannah's sickness and I didn't feel too well, but we still enjoyed the day! We bought a sick magnet of a little coffee cup that says Barcelona on it. We found an awesome market that is wicked cheap and got strawberries for €1.56, 2 tomatoes for €.40, and 2 avocados for €1.05, we got bread too and had some nice sandwiches. For dinner we got tapas. My favorite was these fried Brie cubes with sesame seeds, and Hannah liked the goat cheese salad we got.
Just some tidbits for now, but I am working on a blog for yesterday and today and will try and have it up tonight. Later!
Nic
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