Lemme just say, I love Spain! It is super super warm here and sunny constantly. Awesomeeeeeee. But back to the beginning…
We spent the night in the Galway bus station watching Project Runway and Doctor Horrible on my comp which already had them on it. We’ve decided these are our staples for when there’s a lot of time to kill and no internetz. Finally got on the bus at 1:15am and immediately passed out, only waking up when we got to the Dublin Airport at 4. I was sooooo tired I really just wished the bus ride would have been longer haha. I slept in the airport too even though it was horrifically uncomfortable…obviously comfort is not an issue on 3 hours of sleep. Slept on the plane, obvs. We took the metro to our stop with all our craploads of stuff, but it was a lot easier and faster than we thought it would be. Our hostel was so nice too! Las Musas was really close to Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor, so after dropping our stuff off we went to finally get food. I think Rafa and I both were delirious with exhaustion, but we couldn’t sleep until 2 when they finished cleaning our room ahhhhhhhhh. Before our nap we were all like ‘Oh we’ll sleep for 2 hours and get up and go sightsee and explore!’ Yeah, bullshit. Our alarms went off and we just kept on sleeping, finally getting up at like 5. Nbd. We went to the Reina Sofia, the modern art museum, to see Guernica. I’d been to Madrid before but really didn’t remember much, so I was definitely seeing everything for the first time like Rafa haha. I had dinner with Paige Wolff that night, who’s studying in Madrid, and she took us to this cute little restaurant near her apartment. It was so fun! I finally had avocado omg delish I was so happy…I missed it cause ah it’s so expensive in Ireland. It was such a high school reunion, especially cause I found out that Kyle Hartman is in Madrid too, Elana Hartman was staying at my hostel when I got back, and I’ll probably meet up with Johanna Katz in Barcelona/Florence. Oh Greeley how you stalk me haha.
So in Spain you eat dinner at like 10 or later—we saw people out eating at like 11:30 when we were going home. Rafa and I were gonna do the pub crawl that our hostel did but we just didn’t have time for everything. It was okay though cause we really needed sleep haha. But everything is cheap there! Like a full lunch for 2 euro…epic win :D Instead we drank wine and watched ‘Drag Race’ so all in all a great night.
Next morning at breakfast they had Cola Cao! Aka my favorite drink (powder) ever. I def need to bring some of it back with me aw yeah. We did Sandeman’s Free Walking Tour of Madrid which was 3.5 hours long, free, and AMAZING. Our guide, Matthew, was incredible and knew like everything about the city. Despite the fact I thought my legs were going to collapse by the end, it was a fantastic tour and I loved every minute of it. We saw the entire city too! We went to one of the places he had shown us for chocolate con churros after…there is literally nothing better than dipping fried dough in chocolate. Sandeman’s ran a tapas tour as well for 14 euro so obvs we joined and had a blast. We met a bunch of girls from the States studying in England, a guy who’s an au pair in Frankfurt post-college, a high school grad who’s taking a gap year around Europe, and a bunch of random others who were really nice! The au pair was telling me that it’s a great job—he gets his food, housing, and language lessons paid for because he didn’t speak a word of German when he got there. Also Matthew was pretty cool…he’s from Scotland but went to University in New Zealand, before coming to Spain to give tours and check it out. Epic winnnnn. I tried a bunch of new tapas like Galician octopus, but held off on the pig’s ear. EW GROSS.
We were gonna do a couple more things, like go to the Prado and see the Egyptian temple, but Rafa got in touch with her cousin Morayma who lives in Madrid so we went to see her instead. We vaguely knew where we were going, but were also kinda guessing lol. But we did get there (after asking several people for directions haha) and she was so nice!! She made us dinner and we were there for like 3 hours, until the metro was about to close. She has a 6 year old son, Nico, who is soooooooooooooo adorable. I, being me, did not chat much, but Rafa and Morayma talked about everything…it was hilarious to listen to. Then her neighbor came in and I got totally lost. I can understand almost everything people say, but seriously this woman talked so fast I just smiled and nodded. I thought I was just becoming dumb, but Rafa said she had some trouble too so I felt better.
Thought we would get up early and go to the Prado Wednesday morning, but that failed lol. We slept in a bit and checked out, before walking to Plaza Mayor again to get some lunch. Got to the bus station, where the signs said our bus wasn’t to leave until 3pm, while our tickets said 2pm. Rafa the Magnificent asked around and we found the bus, but not before I spilled strawberry juice all over myself. BLAH FAIL. Oh well, at least it blended a bit with my skirt…
Slán go fóill!
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