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By Emily Utschig
October 8th 2008

Around Madridland

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Bull fights, KAPITAL, more! update later [View Full Entry]

By crm0136
October 6th 2008

Ikea...I'm so American...

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IKEA
Here's the IKEA in Madrid

Today was just a normal day at work. Jasmine and I agreed to meet up after work and school to go to IKEA and this really big Carrefour (a place just like Wal-Mart!), but first she had to go pay rent at some ladies house or something, so I just went to school to use the internet until she was ready. At school, I booked some hostels for my trip this weekend in Lisbon and Salamanca - the Lisbon ones are really cheap! I was there for awhile, but I didn’t get to talk to Ray, I guess he was busy [View Full Entry]

By crm0136
October 5th 2008

¡GOL!

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Iglesia de la Virgen de Carmen
This is the church that I got in trouble for taking pictures at.

I got to sleep in!!!!..well, until Jasmine decided to wake me up at 11:30. But still, I just bummed around the house until Charo’s son came over for our Sunday lunch. Lunch was pretty good today too…but I just realized that this will be my last lunch with them because the rest of the Sundays I’ll be in different cities. We had some kind of carrot soup (tasted just like that pumpkin soup we had a couple of weeks ago…but very good), tomatoes with cheese in some kind of sauce (and I usually don’t like tomatoes, but I really liked these), [View Full Entry]

By Puente
October 5th 2008

Excursion to Extremadura

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Plaza Mayor in Salamanca

I just got back from Extremadura!! The weekend was very busy. The group left at 8am (VERY EARLY for me!) and we took a bus to Salamanca, which is a major university city in Spain. The hotel was really nice, all of the rooms had computers (although ours didn't work), and was right on the Plaza Mayor, which is the center of the city. The only bad thing was that the bathroom door was made of glass and there was a window of clear glass in the middle so that you could see directly into the toilet/shower...that was a little awkward [View Full Entry]

By jesshutch
October 4th 2008

True to my word....almost

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So I have posted pictures.... just not here. I'm not super crazy about the photo upload thingy on this site, so I put a bunch up on facebook. I think everyone who I that is checking this thing has facebook... but if you don't send me and email and I'll send you a couple of the best or something. [View Full Entry]

By SarahBoo
October 4th 2008

Good day

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So this whole picture thing is apparently not going to happen on this blog. Sorry people. But every time I try to upload one my internet freezes and I have to end the program. I've tried like 10 times. I'll put some on myspace. Just find someone to show you them... Oh yea. An aside before I go into my awesome day. I had a CONVERTER/ adapter. The big box and all. I still blew it up. Haha. Then was in France I tried Alex's cuz his you could change the converter from high to low and on high it made [View Full Entry]

By patelm
October 4th 2008

Madrid

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Yes I know I didn't write this first! Arrived Madrid at 4pm, waited 1hr for bags. Got the metro to the hotel. Train was packed, Kay got on and I squeesed on with bag and rucksack. A north African then was at my feet picking up some money that he had dropped, before I new it he pulled at my trouser legs and got my wallet from the inside zipped pocket and was off the train. Lost one credit/debig card and about Euro30 and some pounds, got to the hotel and cancelled the cards and rang the police and got a [View Full Entry]

By crm0136
October 3rd 2008

Toro Toro

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Plaza de Toros de Las Ventanas
Here's the entrance

Today, I went to work and same ‘ol same ‘ol. At lunch I talked to some of my co-workers to ask which cities they would recommend me to go to because I spontaneously decided that I’m going to take a day trip tomorrow. It took me awhile to decide where I wanted to go, but I finally decided on Sevilla because it’s close enough to do in a day, and I’m not sure if I’ll have another chance. I looked up the times, and the earliest train leaves at 7:30, so I’ll have to catch the Metro right when it opens [View Full Entry]

By SarahBoo
October 3rd 2008

Pictures... i think

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Alright. I'm in Madrid. About to go out and explore. Just thought I'd give you all some pictures... if i could figure out how of course.... lets see. [View Full Entry]

By brey
October 3rd 2008

Beginning of trip

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Yesterday - after a lot of fussing around - I finally found the hostel I wanted to make a reservation at. The thing is that I was sure I reserved a bed at the right hostel (I was here some months ago and this hostel was really good, clean, the people are okay, the staff is young but nice, etc.) but as it turned out, the reservation went to the other hostel with the same name but a couple of minutes from here. After some inquiries, however, I could transfer to this hostel. Oh yeah, the name of the hostel is [View Full Entry]

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