woah! we have just arrived in Madrid after god knows how many hours of traveling. it didnt cost too much thanks o our euro rail card, instead we only pay for reservations and supplements. i dont even know ho many hundreds of euros we saved thus far.

last night we started off great on our overnight journey having a whole carriage to ourselfs, but it all went terribly wrong sumwhere. suddently we were in spanish train station we were expecting to be still French! at first we had the carriage to ourself but then drunken spaniards came on, followed by jeering perhps als drunken spanyard boys and a fight nearly broke ut. after that it was sooo crammed in our cariage we couldne get a wnk of decent sleep in.

we arrived in Madrid at about 7am and have since spent the last 5 hours finding a hostel. the one we have landed in is costing far more than we first had hoped, at 20Euro a night but its cgot gfree breakfast and internet which is worth at least 6 euro right thee, and its dead centre of milan with great additionals like hair dryers and the place is a fab old building.

excuse the grammar and spelling but yet again these computers are in high demand and i only got 15mins to spew out a looad of thoughts.!

from now on´we are guna forward plan our jounrey a lot better, cos its causing some of us to strsss like a a madwoman.!

we expect to stay in madrid for about 3 nights total, and rest from all the exhausting traveling lack of sleep and crazed sightseeing. the lack of planning has also meant we had to arry our backpcks around a lot also which is... exhausting - i do get a strange kick out of that hardship tho :)

after madrid its prolly gunna be POrto (Porugal) then maybe a night in the algarve (south portugal= before on to serville and then grenada. after which Barcelona and we will take it from there.

i will probably post again later when got food down us, done some sightseeing and booked all the trains-hostes etc.

i will also tidy this post up at a later date! again, check kates blog for another angle on our travels thus far at www.offexploring.com/katelucywhitham

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