Friday, March 18, 2005

Madrid is in my top five greatest cities and rising fast

Like the title reads, this town rocks. First of all thanks to Jon P. for introducing me to Nathan, and thanks to Nathan and Edurne for taking me in for a while. And thanks to everyone for helping me get on my way.

When I go there I was kind of hating life - jet lag has a strange effect. I went to sleep at 9:30 local time, woke up at three in the morning, finally fell back asleep around seven, then slept until noon. I walked around Madrid all this afternoon, then went to see a play (in English), celebrated St. Patrick's day at Paul, Kelly, and Lance's place, went to a bar, went to a club, then finally had dinner after three this morning.

Tomorrow Nathan and I head to Valencia for Las Fallas (Edurne is sick) - a crazy festival where effigies are burned and fireworks set off. We then head for a national park whose name I can't remember, then head to Cadiz and Malaga on the Meditteranean. We should be back a week from Sunday (I think).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow, that sounds cool...i wanna go!
-elizabeth

Anonymous said...

Totally agree. Madrid is sweet. If you have 1 extra day take a bus trip to Toledo or Segovia (both within a couple hours). Segovia has an ancient Roman aquaduct that runs through the entire city, and Toledo is where El Greco did most of his work.

-Thorne

Anonymous said...

i saw pictures of the festival on sfgate - so, where are yours?!? hmmm? ;)

hope you are having a great time w/ nathan & edurne.

~ amy