Blogs from Madrid, District of Madrid, Spain, Europe - page 107

So we arrived yesterday around 14.30 and we were immediately greeted by our friends at the airport. We got our 1200€ and since my landlord wasn´t quite ready to meet us we went to a local hamburger bar. Afterward I experienced the ¨botellon¨ culture, which is basically where friends get together in the middle of streets or parking lots and park their cars and put on music and socialize. We did this in the parking lot of Universidad Complutense de Madrid which is the big campus in the city. In the lawn there is a current protest going on in regards to the cost of living in Madrid...students are demanding lower rates. So for the past 6 months a bunch of youth have had tents set up in the lawn of the campus and they just ... read more

Calm down, I´m still alive. 24 hours of flying later, that is. Basically every single one of my flights was late, and I think that pretty much anyone who´s seen me in England at this point thinks I´m just some hobo that likes to sleep in their airports for hours on end. Anyways. I got here at about 1 in the morning finally on the 13th, and the poor lady from my program was still waiting for me. We took a taxi to the hostel and I passed out pretty immediately. So my first official day in Madrid started yesterday. I woke up and met the other groggy girls I was sharing a room with: two college graduates from California, an Italian Opera singer, and a pair of sisters from Mexico. The Mexican girls left already, ... read more

Hola a todos, estamos a 7 dias de comenzar nuestro viajecillo por el mundo, (para quien no lo sepa vamos a estar viajando durante el proximo año por el continente americano, luego por nueva zelanda, australia y por ultimo el sudeste asiatico). Aterrizaremos en Lima el proximo 10 de Septiembre y de ahi iremos hacia Bolivia donde vamos a estar en un proyecto de cooperacion durante unas 6 semanitas. Intentaremos poner al dia el blog con alguna foto y comentarios por lo menos una vez a la semana o cada 2 semanas. Hi everybody, in a weeks time we are starting our trip around the world. We are heading towards Lima, Peru first and then we´ll spend 6 weeks working as volunteers in a project in Bolivia. We´ll try to update our blog every so ... read more

Aug. 31st 1:30am (Spain time) My roommate Mike and I are hanging out in our hotel in Madrid right now, up for a while before we go back to sleep. Because of the time difference we’ve been pretty tired lately and so after getting a little bit lost around the city earlier and walking quite a bit, we came back at 7pm and ended up “taking a nap” for 5 hours. At midnight we got up and explored around a little bit looking for a place to eat. Now we are back and will probably head to bed here pretty soon because we have to meet up with our group at 9am ready to leave for Toledo. There are over 100 kids here at the hotel, some going to Salamanca and Bilbao, but most (about 75) ... read more

Siestas y Fiestas en Espana, translates to "Mid-afternoon naps and partying in Spain", which is basically what I have been doing for the past six days. Siesta occurred in Seville, although it wasn't me taking the siestas but the locals, and fiestas most definitely occurred in Mad Maaaad! Madrid. But firstly let's recall Seville. Seville, aka Sevilla, aka "The Frying Pan Of Europe", is hot in every sense of the word. Whoever gave the city the frying pan moniker was almost accurate, but I would liken the dry, scorching heat more to an oven rather than a frying pan. But "The Oven Of Europe"doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it? With temperatures during the day hovering around 40 degrees, it was definitely the hottest place I've been to after Zagreb. Seville is also ... read more