Madrid!

Madrid! The Palace

Our view from our hostal above and below me and Katie freezing our butts off!

Below is me and Katie, the building behind us is the post office in Madrid..

I went to Madrid not this last weekend but the weekend before that. It was a big city and not as friendly as it is here in Sevilla but i had fun. We had to take a six hour bus ride to get there and we left Sevilla at midnight to get there at 6:00 in the morning. The two girls i was with had purchased these hotel vouchers that when we got to the hotel at 6:30am they said they had never seen the vouchers before and it was an expensive hotel. So we journied out into the big city of Madrid to find a hostal. It was a long weekend so the first few we went in had all their rooms booked! By that time we were exhausted and just needed a place to put all our bags. Finally at 10:00am we found a hostal that was only 17 Euro a night, which is pretty good for Madrid. Our room eneded up having a balcony that was so cool to stand out on and look down onto the city. It ended up having no heat and it was really cold, but i guess it was a trade off for the balcony and low price we paid. We spent the weekend walking all over Madrid. We got to go to the Museo del Prado and the Museo Sophia that have the most famous collections of artwork from all over the world. I got to see paintings from Picaso, Greco, Goya, Dahli, and more. We also went to the Palace in Madrid but it was closed because the Royal family was actually there at the time. On our last night it was Columbus Day and there was a huge parade, tons of music and festivities everywhere. I thought it was really cool we got to be in the Capital of Spain for its big day in history!