Our days in Madrid

20 minutes or so later, we couldnt check yet, so we left our bags and toured around.
Amber thought it was a good idea to take the maps away from me, because I am constantly checking them {it makes me feel safe to know where i am and where I am going, i hate being lost}. But she wanted me to relax and stop being a tight ass, as we tried to get to a palace. Needless to say we did get lost without the map (i told amber so), but we eventually got there after much freeking out by me.

We toured trough the gardens and then Amber wanted to go into the palace and see it, i didnt really want to go, but thats ok. so we toured around the palace and saw amazing things ( i couldnt take picuters, there were gaurds everywhere telling me not to ... so irritating). The palace was really nice and interesting, so i am glad that we did go and see it. Amber was right ...

By the time we were finished, it was 6 oclock and we were hungry again, so we made our way back to the hostel, but stopped at a major square for some food. We were bombarded by waiters trying to get us to sit at their resturaunts, again very irritating. We fininally found a place that didnt irritate us, the food was ok. We were serinated by an acordian player, i touhgt it was quite nice, Amber wanted to pay him 10 € to go away.

The square that we ate in was supposed to be really nice (Plaza de Mayor), but there is some festival going on in afew days, so there was this huge stage set up in the middle.

we then got lost again going back to our hostel but eventually got there thanks to many people giving us directions. We decided to plan out our next few days and then head to bed.

I didn't fare too well, i tought i had a fever, i was probably de-hidrated, too much sun, heat stroke. I shivered in bed for a few hours, trying to drink water, then decided to just go throw up and i felt great after that. Slept like a baby, i didnt even hear the group of drunk people coming in at 5 in the morning.

The next day we got up, had breakfast, update our blog. we had to change rooms, because we only planned on staying here for 1 night, so that is all that was booked. By the time we left here it was nearly 1. So we went to the train station to book our tickets out of here.Got there .... stood in line for almost an hour ... got to the ticket agent, and found out we needed to go to a different place to book international tickets ... crap, well that was an experience to learn from.

went to the 2nd place to get tickets and our original plan didn´t work with the trains, so instead of heading to Toulouse France, we are now just heading to Hendaye, France (or Spain) its right on the boarder, a small town, apparently very nice.

So we left the train station around 230 and walked to a HUGE park, like 20 square blocks. It was really nice, and in the middle there was a huge monument and man made lake thing. There were people paddling around on boats (but i said I am a bum, and we´re not doing that). We grabbed a sandwhich from a stand (pre-packaged and not very appatizing). We then relaxed in the 28 degree sunshine, reading our books for an hour or so.

We then got our lazy butts in gear and got some ice cream and headed to a HUGE arch. That was all that we had planned so Amber took it upon herself to make plans for the rest of the day and decided to fill it with shopping (can you sense the enthusiasum in my voice). It was alright ... ok i enjoyed myself, we picked a few things up, got yelled at by a security guard, got lost in Zara ... and then called it a day.

Now off to dinner and bed, and then we head out in the morning...

Good bye Spain, hello France.

written by  Trevor and Amber on May 14, 2009 from Madrid, Spain
from the travel blog: Europe Trip
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