Blogs from District of Madrid, Spain, Europe - page 179

This blog is dedicated to Amy! She left me this week….so sad….we had such good times… I am just going to give her a little shout out….feel free to ask……Amy and I will both be happy to tell you all about it… Sangria….Top-less sunbathing…just kidding..hehe, or am I? Salsa Dancing…Romeing Tours….”Amy, Come Here!!!”…pub crawl…. the ruins… “I know there has got to be something big around the corner.”…….the coliseum…the tour guy….12 euro gellato..what? The Spanish steps…Bernini….V fountain…..hot guy in the Trevi fountain…….”But I love you!”….Sistine Chapel…I’m over it…..Morano, Burano….glass blowing..snacks….Kit Kats, Licorice….Vivaldi….The canals…..cafe con leche por perdone…..yummy lunches…Spritz…St. Marks Basillica!!!!...is that a basilica!?.....Viva La France… Moulin Rouge….Music with Brenden….boat ride on the Siene…crepes…NUTELLA!! Bonjour…bonjour….OH my GOD!......Pont Neuf…polis... read more

So, Andy and I are at the internet cafe spending some quality time as brother and sister on our last day together. I leave tomorrow morning for Barcelona to catch my plane the next day to Paris. We are going to go see the Museo del Prado and the Cathedral today and meet Dulce later for a drink on her favorite Terrazza. The boys met some Germans at their hostel who were traveling with their school. Andy had a chance to practice his German skills and faired pretty well according to one girl. The boys leave on Sunday for Barcelona and stay until Thursday when they leave for Rome. I think we are all looking forward to the part of our trip where we can see water and just dive in at last. Madrid is ridiculously ... read more

As we sit on the fast moving intra-Spain railroad traveling from Madrid to Barcelona, I finally get the opportunity to put down many of my thoughts and feelings that have been building up since our arrival to Spain on Thursday morning. Many of you have probably been hearing about Europe on the news recently (for my opinions check out the other blog, Perlin and Son, at perlinandson.blogspot.com) but this should certainly serve as a different description. This is our first blog from our amazing European adventure and you are reading it so as they say in Spain, Hola. Why blog at all? As someone dear to me recently said, she doesn't like to journal, because the point of writing thoughts down is to have somebody read them, and not to sit in a secret book. In ... read more

Evening all, Just a quick note to let family (Hao, Hung & San) you know that I am alive and well and have reached Madrid in Spain. To the rest of you, I´m alive and have stumbled into an internet cafe despite my lack of spanish. You´ll be surprised/disgusted to hear that Delta Goodrem has reached Spanish radio. Those of you not in Australia won´t have any idea what that means, but anyway. I´ll keep this brief because it´s almost time for dinner. As mentioned, I´ve begun my tour and we started in Paris and worked our way down the west side of france and into spain and have finally reached Madrid. For me, the highlight has been the different food that´s been available for sampling. The duck gizzards in Bordeaux were a highlight, as well ... read more

My day of travel from Barcelona to Madrid was a long one, but not by any means a waste. I arrived at the train station around 10am hoping to grab a direct train, but sadly every single direct train for the day was fully reserved, ugh. Luckily the girl at the tickets booth managed to work out a route for me to get to my destination. The 1500 train from Barcelona to Valencia, and the 1845 train from Valencia to Madrid. It worked very smoothly actually, but cost me about 5 hours of time. The train rides were, however, extremely scenic, and I enjoyed this a lot. From Barcelona to Valencia it was right along the meditaranian sea, very pretty beaches and coastal towns. From Valenica to Madrid it was uphill most of the way and ... read more