salamanca is probably the oldest, coolest city i have ever been to. we lucked out and happened to have come here on the second day of a week long festival that is dedicated to patron saint. the hostel we planned on staying in was completly full, probably because of the festival. after walking around for a few minutes we found a hostel, and it turned out to be much better than we expected because we had our own room and bathroom. the lady who ran the hostel wouldn...

Mike and I are at the Cats hostel in downtown Madrid. getting here was not easy though. from paris we took a 5 and a half hour train to Irun, which is on the border of spain and france, and then from irun we had a nine hour train to madrid. the train to madrid was a second class sleeper with 6 tiny beds jammed into a cabin the size of a closet. it was pretty rediculuos, but the good thing was that the only other occupied bed in our couchette was a french guy who ...

Bonjour, I am writing to you from an internet cafe in Paris. We got into london yesterday morning, walked around for a few hours, then took the bus to waterloo station because the tubes (metro) were on strike for some reason. The chunnel brought is into paris at around 5. We checked into our hotel, (that Mike booked) and it was the crappiest hotel ever and not even really downtown. But there was a bed and we were tired as s***! Once we got in we decided to ...