Tired and stinky

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well I have just arrived in barcelona after a 6 hour train ride, which was more or less uneventful, not like the last one. But more on that later. this train ride was broken up into pieces of reading my cheezy John Grissam novel, which has made more than a couple of people mistake me for an American, listing to music and staring blankly and the spanish countryside as it rolled on by.
My last couple of days in Madrid were fun. Met some cool people, and saw some more intresting sights, which included the armory of the royal palace, housing one of the largest and best preserved collections of ancient armour. And the massive park in the middle of madrid, which I wandered around for about 3 hours, doing my best to avoid the vangrents that were milling about. My last day in madrid I decided to take a bus with a girl that i met at the hostel over to toleo, which was an ancient city, kind of like the spanish jeruselum. It was pritty neat to see and wander around an ancient city, with a huge fortification wall all aoround it, that was still functioning. All of the turist shops sell swords and i couldnt help but think that they should just slap a big "house of knives" over the entrence to the city.
After i left Madrid I took a train east to the city of Murcia, to viset my friend Ruben. That was my first real experience of being lost in a forign land and not speaking any of that language, except for being able to order coffee and beer, which under rubens tutledge, was expanded to coffee WITH milk, and light OR dark beer. Any ways at the train station I ended up just walking up to different information desks, with my euro pass saying "murcia?" untill I found someone who gave me a boarding pass. On the train things got worse when the ticket guy stated yelling at me in spanish because apperently i was in the wrong seat, but after much grumbling from him, allong with some help from the girl sitting beside me who spoke broken english he figured something out and I stayed put.
Murcia was very nice, Ruben took me to the beach, and hiking in the mountins where we got lost and had to make our own trail down, and all around us there was fresh rosemerry growing which i was crushing in my hands to smell the spice. It was all very cool. Getting to hang out with rubens friends and family was nice, but now I am back on my own, and looks like it will be that way for the remainder of the trip. No more friends to meet Up with allong the way, unless i can convince one of you to come out and meet me. invitations still open.

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Comments

[Roberto]

On my Way
Put the cheque in the mail and I'm on my way!!!!

[juliet]

never alone
glad to hear ur taking in the cultures as all good travellers do!!! take it from me - you will not be alone as long as you stay in hostels with lots of beds - if you meet wierd or boring ppl - change hostels!!! you will become the most popular person you know!! Keep smiling - this is a great opportunity and before you know it you'll be back home and reminising on all the good times - the low points will be a distant blur!!!