Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 1078

It's only 1315 and I've had as much excitement as I need for a morning. The Plan: get to the regional train station via the metro. Leave lots of time. Relax!! What Actually happened: got up at 9 had breakfast, checkout and get on Metro. I think the RENFE train is near the Palicio so we head to the west. (totally ignoring the name of the station I need is Atoches and is only 3stops away. We head the wrong way!! 90minutes,6trains,20 stops later..we make it to where we need to be (which would've been done in 4min, 1train, 3stops!!!)!! Get on long line for reservation and end up missing the 1145 train. Realize this....things move a little slower here!! Luckily though I am done with it at 1230..just in time for the 1305 train. The ... read more

I was rushed off that last blog entry.... for those of you who haven't used an internet cafe, you get LOGGED OFF..EXITED..TERMINATED..DONE ...etc when your time is up. Okay, where was I ? Okay, for us it is Friday night... we traveled today from 9am to 7pm.... and you heard, we still have no luggage!! ... We have lost all hope of ever seeing our luggage again..... I think perhaps the luggage is off on some adventure we may hear about soon. Perhaps too, we will be compensated for the cheap throwaway stuff I brought and be able to buy something good someday (if we ever get paid!) .. Oh, likely not though...did you hear the name of the airline we flew from London to Madrid ... it's not good.... Air Comet ! , I'm not ... read more

After Christmas and Boxing day came and went, we packed up our little rental car and headed out to the Sierra Nevada to enjoy a few days brushing up our (lack of) snow boarding skills. Sierra Nevada certainly was very different to the ski resorts in Austria. Definitely not as pretty, quite a different experience to be driving out to a ski resort, passing olive trees and cactus on the way! Unfortunately, the slopes were absolutely packed on our first day and not all the runs were operational so the learner slopes were covered in people in various stages of control! Due to a mix up with the instructors we only had a 40-minute lesson and were then left to practice. The magic carpet wasn’t running on the beginner slope so each trip down the hill ... read more

Geo: 28.7383, -13.8681Up early for the flight to the Canary Islands. We had breakfast at "La Sirena Verde", a place just outside of the hotel. It was pretty early - 6 AM - you wouldn't think that any places would be open at this hour in Spain, because everybody is a night owl here and you wouldn't think anybody would be up this early for breakfast. But this is Spain - this restaurant likely wasn't open at 6 AM for early risers, it was probably open for people just going home from the clubs! Off to the airport - bye, bye Madrid! Bye, bye Spain! Bye, bye Spanish hotties! Sob ... sob ... luckily I stole a pack of tissues from the hotel to dry my tears! They smelled so sweet ... just like Spanish hotties! ... read more

Geo: 40.4167, -3.70327Ben mistakenly woke me up at 6:00 AM. He thought I intended to be up at 6:00, but I wanted to wake up at 6:30. A guy needs his beauty rest to have any shot with the Spanish hotties! We ate the leftovers for breakfast. I was completely stuffed - there was way too much food for dinner yesterday and way too much left for breakfast today. The Underground wasn't running yet so we needed to flag down a cab for Victoria station, where we would be taking the Gatwick Express to the airport for our Madrid flight. I ate my yogurt on board. Did I really need to eat more food after such a massive breakfast? Not really! The conductor came around looking for tickets - I simply showed her a scrap piece ... read more