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Hello again,
Grrr this is the 2nd time i'm going to try and post this entry. It lost an entire essay practically that i wrote 2 days ago. Oh well....
Since our last update we have had a few dramas. We had a great afternoon in Alicante just swimming and sunbaking the afternoon away. When it was time to move onto madrid we headed to the train station only to find out that the only available train was at 8pm in first class at ?50+ each...clearly not an option for us so we had to wait until the next morning. We decided to just camp out for the night (couldnt be bothered finding more accommodation because the one that we were in the night before was a bit expensive. It was ok to begin with....more swimming and sunbaking and we met two girls from a town near alicante that found it hilarious that we went to the beach with all our luggage. Haha we did look pretty funny on the beach. Plus we were paranoid that we would lose everything when we were swimming...but we were ok. And then darkness came. We slept a little bit....but then someone tried to sell us dope and we were woken up at 3am by the beach police telling us not to sleep and to get lost. Sure enough a few minutes later a big tractor came to smooth the beach and pick up rubbish. We gave up on sleeping on the beach and went straight to the station to try and sleep there before our 7am train for madrid. It didnt ruin our time in alicante though....the beach is just sooo nice (in the day). Such a good view when you're swimming and looking back at the sand.
We arrived in Madrid fairly early which was nice as it gave us time to look for a hostel. And i do think that we found a gem. It was so unbelievably nice....clean and brand new and modern. Brilliant. We met these 2 south australians who had already been travelling constantly for 6 months - they gave us all their left over moroccan money because you cant change it anywhere. Then there were these 2 germans that asked if i was german because my german was so good. Hahahaha made me feel good the entire night :-p.
We just wandered around the sol area really....found our first buffet libre where we both ate far far too much. So yummy though. We may need to go there more often. We also went shopping (mainly in el corte ingles) for a certain someones present...no luck yet but we shall keep trying. Then we had a pretty early night as we were shattered from the eventful night before. Plus we knew that we were one day down in madrid so we had to do alot of sightseeing today.
Todays day of sightseeing was full on but great. We started off by taking the metro to the palace....fairly unimpressive really. Like it was nice....similar to buckingham palace in that it was nice but not really grand. Nothing like the asian palaces anyway. Then we wandered round to the placa espagne (i think every city has one) and up the grand via. After taking photos next to a few more statues up along the way to the independence monument (giant arc) we hit some gardens and the museo del prado. We were really tempted to go in (or i was) but we didnt really have enough time as we need to get ready to catch the train to algeciras - gateway to morocco. Off there now...will post more later.
Xoxoxo
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