Tapas and Hooker Row
October 29
Today was Day #55 in Europe… we’ve hit the half way point – um, WOW that was fast!
Last night I rolled around for about 2 hours before I was able to fall asleep (I could here Kate doing the same… our beds are like musical instruments: everytime one of us moves a different note is squeeked out).
Also, the streets were loud and alive well into 6AM this morning… DON’T YOU PEOPLE EVER SLEEP?! Whatever, it was good to get our 10 hours in cuz the day was another long day of museums.
Okay… Madrid is DEAD on Sundays. ZERO shops are open and since we live in an area that has only shops, it made a huge impact on the crowds.
After Starbucks (where the girl that works there knows my name and my order due to our excessive visits) we headed to Plaza Del Sol and hopped on the metro. After a little confusion (we forgot where we were going on our way there…) we arrived at the train station. It worked out well thought cuz we were able to buy our train tickets to Barcelona for tomorrow. We’re taking a sleeper train! It leaves at 10PM tomorrow night and arrives in Barcelona at 7:30AM – this should be interesting.
The train station was really cool; the inside was decorated like a tropical forest complete with a huge pond of turtles! We took pics, don’t worry; the Madrid train station turtles will be posted on Facebook shortly.
After being harassed by an old man we hopped back on the metro and headed toward the bullfighting museum. Unfortunately, bullfighting season ended a week ago (figures that we JUST missed it. UGH); the museum was our best alternative… yup. It was closed. Rick lead us astray – it’s okay though. The “Plaza Del Toros” was really cool. We peaked through the gates and checked out the inside of the stadium, it was HUGE! The actual plaza had a lot of fun statues and stuff too… it was an ideal picture taking opportunity.
The it was back to the metro (psh, we’re so metro savvy) and off to the “Clothing Museum.” Well. We never quite found the clothing museum… we hopped off the metro where Rick told us to but never found the actual street it was on even though we did ask a girl working at a newspaper stand, a taxi driver, and a guy at a bar. THANKS everyone!
We did however enjoy the perfect weather on our stroll through a park and got to check out a little bit of the Universidad de Madrid campus (which looked like it would fit in with all the back-east colleges at home; it was beautiful).
For lunch we headed back in the metro to Plaza Del Sol and got sandwiches at Pan&Company. The best part of lunch was the souvenir/happy-meal-esque-prize coffee mug that came with our meal. Random but awesome; it’s the little things in life. :)
On our walk home we enjoyed some McD’s soft serve and got a good laugh from BRAVO’S PERRITOS CALIENTES… classic.
God I love Spanish siestas (actually, ours was more like a Siesta Phi-esta). Today’s lasted about 1 ½ hours. Haha.
After the group siesta we got beautiful and started to organize our evening. I’m proud to say that the three of us are very mature travelers. We’re thrifty and look for deals (but aren’t cheap and haven’t passed anything up because of the cost), we sight see all day long until our feet are flat, we use public transportation, we don’t get wasted everynight… today I didn’t consume a single drop of alcohol. I dunno, I’m pretty proud of us.
After an emergency trip to the farmacia (for some emergency antibiotics that they handed over the second they understood what we were talking about for a ridiculously cheap price) we headed out for dinner. Tonight we were hungry for tapas.
At Vinoteca in Plaza Santa Ana we consumed SEVEN plates of tapas… our plates included fried cheese balls, fried spinach and cheese sticks, tomato and mozzarella salad, THREE tortillas verduras, a curry chicken salad thing, a goat cheese and caramelized onion thing, and lots of bread. Ok, sooo we didn’t really branch out and try traditional Spanish plates but we left Vinoteca 2934820% satisfied.
After dinner we headed back up Hooker Row (prostitution in Spain is legal according to Rick and the going rate is 27 euro a round. No joke. Seriously though, prosititutes line the street on the way to Narnia and they were close to our age…) to Narnia to call it a night.
Before bed we played a few rounds of LEMON and MASH, listened to Jack’s Mannequin, and packed for our trip east to Barcelona the next evening… Buenas Noches!
Quote of the Day:
“I guess we can try speaking Spitanglish… someone MIGHT understand us.”
Today was Day #55 in Europe… we’ve hit the half way point – um, WOW that was fast!
Last night I rolled around for about 2 hours before I was able to fall asleep (I could here Kate doing the same… our beds are like musical instruments: everytime one of us moves a different note is squeeked out).
Also, the streets were loud and alive well into 6AM this morning… DON’T YOU PEOPLE EVER SLEEP?! Whatever, it was good to get our 10 hours in cuz the day was another long day of museums.
Okay… Madrid is DEAD on Sundays. ZERO shops are open and since we live in an area that has only shops, it made a huge impact on the crowds.
After Starbucks (where the girl that works there knows my name and my order due to our excessive visits) we headed to Plaza Del Sol and hopped on the metro. After a little confusion (we forgot where we were going on our way there…) we arrived at the train station. It worked out well thought cuz we were able to buy our train tickets to Barcelona for tomorrow. We’re taking a sleeper train! It leaves at 10PM tomorrow night and arrives in Barcelona at 7:30AM – this should be interesting.
The train station was really cool; the inside was decorated like a tropical forest complete with a huge pond of turtles! We took pics, don’t worry; the Madrid train station turtles will be posted on Facebook shortly.
After being harassed by an old man we hopped back on the metro and headed toward the bullfighting museum. Unfortunately, bullfighting season ended a week ago (figures that we JUST missed it. UGH); the museum was our best alternative… yup. It was closed. Rick lead us astray – it’s okay though. The “Plaza Del Toros” was really cool. We peaked through the gates and checked out the inside of the stadium, it was HUGE! The actual plaza had a lot of fun statues and stuff too… it was an ideal picture taking opportunity.
The it was back to the metro (psh, we’re so metro savvy) and off to the “Clothing Museum.” Well. We never quite found the clothing museum… we hopped off the metro where Rick told us to but never found the actual street it was on even though we did ask a girl working at a newspaper stand, a taxi driver, and a guy at a bar. THANKS everyone!
We did however enjoy the perfect weather on our stroll through a park and got to check out a little bit of the Universidad de Madrid campus (which looked like it would fit in with all the back-east colleges at home; it was beautiful).
For lunch we headed back in the metro to Plaza Del Sol and got sandwiches at Pan&Company. The best part of lunch was the souvenir/happy-meal-esque-prize coffee mug that came with our meal. Random but awesome; it’s the little things in life. :)
On our walk home we enjoyed some McD’s soft serve and got a good laugh from BRAVO’S PERRITOS CALIENTES… classic.
God I love Spanish siestas (actually, ours was more like a Siesta Phi-esta). Today’s lasted about 1 ½ hours. Haha.
After the group siesta we got beautiful and started to organize our evening. I’m proud to say that the three of us are very mature travelers. We’re thrifty and look for deals (but aren’t cheap and haven’t passed anything up because of the cost), we sight see all day long until our feet are flat, we use public transportation, we don’t get wasted everynight… today I didn’t consume a single drop of alcohol. I dunno, I’m pretty proud of us.
After an emergency trip to the farmacia (for some emergency antibiotics that they handed over the second they understood what we were talking about for a ridiculously cheap price) we headed out for dinner. Tonight we were hungry for tapas.
At Vinoteca in Plaza Santa Ana we consumed SEVEN plates of tapas… our plates included fried cheese balls, fried spinach and cheese sticks, tomato and mozzarella salad, THREE tortillas verduras, a curry chicken salad thing, a goat cheese and caramelized onion thing, and lots of bread. Ok, sooo we didn’t really branch out and try traditional Spanish plates but we left Vinoteca 2934820% satisfied.
After dinner we headed back up Hooker Row (prostitution in Spain is legal according to Rick and the going rate is 27 euro a round. No joke. Seriously though, prosititutes line the street on the way to Narnia and they were close to our age…) to Narnia to call it a night.
Before bed we played a few rounds of LEMON and MASH, listened to Jack’s Mannequin, and packed for our trip east to Barcelona the next evening… Buenas Noches!
Quote of the Day:
“I guess we can try speaking Spitanglish… someone MIGHT understand us.”
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