Toledo, Spain, Europe Today was a great day in Toledo! I left Vivi’s in Madrid at 10:30am and walked down to Atocha train station to get the train to Toledo. Alicia was nice enough to pick me up at the train station with Rodrigo when I arrived at noon. We went into the old city and parked the car so we could walk around for a few hours. It really is a cool little city, built on a hill, and…
Madrid, Spain, Europe I didn’t do much today besides run around and get nothing accomplished. My goal was to get out of the city to a park called Parque del Capricho, which is where one of Jacquelien’s scavenger hunt photos was taken. Vivi was at work, so I figured it was a good time for me to hop on a metro and go find this monument. Well, that didn’t happen. I got the metro out to Capricho, which was about…
Madrid, Spain, Europe Today was a pretty quiet day. I had one objective, and that was to try and find some new shoe/sandals that I was looking for at the outlets yesterday, but couldn’t find the ones I wanted. I checked out a few different shops but never found the ones I wanted in my size. I walked around the city for another couple of hours, and then just hung out at Vivi’s apartment. We went out for dinner at…
Madrid, Spain, Europe Today was a day full of shopping. I’m not really a big fan of shopping, but today was Vivi’s last day off while I’m here, so I went along so we could hang out for a little while. We went out to a few different outlet malls and spent almost the whole day shopping. I ended up coming away with a couple of shirts from a Columbia shop, but that was it. Luckily, a couple of the…
Madrid, Spain, Europe I got to see Alicia today, so that was a nice surprise. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to see her while I was here in Spain, but she and her friend Rodrigo drove down to Madrid for the day and we met them for lunch. Vivi and I spent the morning running some errands, things she needs to take care of before she moves from Spain back to Colombia. We met Alicia…
Madrid, Spain, Europe Today was quite a relaxed day in Madrid. Vivi got up and left for work at 6:15am, and I hardly heard her at all. It was perfect because I was able to go back to sleep and not get up until 9am. That was a good rest. I finally got up, got ready and headed out to find the Cuban embassy. I knew I had to get a visa for Cuba, and I wasn’t sure how long…
Madrid, Spain, Europe I got up at 8am with the intention of going to visit these two old churches outside the city. Unfortunately, when I woke up and looked out the window, I realized that it was pouring buckets. I don’t mind if it’s not the greatest weather, but I really didn’t feel like walking around in the pouring rain before I had to get on a bus for five and a half hours. I made the executive decision that…
Oviedo, Spain, Europe I had a good night’s sleep at Laura’s place, got my stuff together this morning, and left before I ever saw anyone in the house. I left my keys behind and grabbed a bus to the city center and got my Alsa bus to Oviedo. It was just a couple of hours to get here and my hotel is only a five minute walk from the bus station, so that made it easy. I’m staying in a…
Santander, Spain, Europe Today was not a very patriotic day, but it was a really good day anyway. I had already bought today’s bus ticket when I was out yesterday, so I just had to get to the bus station for 10:30am which was no problem at all. I got my bus from Bilbao at 11am and I was in Santander by 1pm. Tonight is the first night I am staying in an Airbnb apartment, so I had a set…
Bilbao, Spain, Europe I officially had the worst night ever in a hostel last night. I had met one of the kiwi guys who was staying in my room last night before they went out and I thought he seemed like a nice guy. He even said “we’ll probably be coming in late tonight but we’ll try to keep the noise down for you.” That’s all you can really ask for. You know that when staying in a dorm you…