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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 didnt stink to bad. i managed to sleep pretty well, but i dont think mike did.
We got into madrid at about 7 am, and made our way to the hostel. unfortunately, we couldnt check in until 12. so we walked around madrid all morning, did some sightseeing, and our now back at our hostel. The hostel is really nice, especially compared to the sleeping accomodations we have had the last few days. there is a bar, and below that there is like a club room where people have a few drinks before they go out. our room is nice and clean, and has about six bunk beds in it. tonight will be the first night we really go out, so i am sure the stories will only get better from here.
we are going to stay in madrid for three nights, and then go to Salamancca or lisbon, portugal. i am going to go take a nap so i can get ready to party.
9/8/07
our first night out in madrid we went to this club that was designed like an old spanish palace. or maybee it just used to be an old palace, i dont really know. it was pretty fun, but it was a sausage fest. our second day in madrid was much better. we started out by going to the museo del prado, which is one of the oldest and most famous art museums in europe. i am pretty sure the art was completly lost with mike, but i enjoyed it. the rest of the day we just walked around the city and explored all that it had to offer. the second night we went to a club called kapital, which was recommended by my cousin nicholas, and just about anyone that has ever been to madrid. we got there at 1230 and we were literally the first two people there. luckily it filled up pretty quickly so it wasnt to emberassing. the club was seven floors of dancing and mayhem, and every few minutes this huge blast of mist would just shoot out of the ceiling and blast everyone. at one point in the night mike kept dancing on this girl who clearly didnt want to dance with him, and eventually she turned around and yelled at him in spanish to leave her alone. it was pretty f***ing hilarious. we left the club at around 5 am and stumbled back to our hostels where i am pretty sure we woke up all the pussies who didnt go out because the room keys are so hard to use that it takes us like 20 times to open the door.
our diets in madrid have pretty much consisted of ham sandwiches and doner kebaps (which mike like to call boner kebaps). and by ham sandwich i mean one slice of spanish ham and a piece of bread. one time i ordered a mixto sandwich, hoping to get some vegetables or dressing on my sandwich, and all i got was a slice of ham and a slice of cheese.
all in all our trip to madrid was pretty awesome, but we cut it a day short to go to salamanca. when you have two full days to walk around you can see alot of s***, and we figured we saw just about all of madrid.
justin
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