Final Days in Madrid

Spend most of the day in bed and lounging about the hostel, which was great. Its good to have a couple of chilled out days every now and then. Yesterday I think we may have left the hostel twice, once to go to the train station to book our ticket to Barcelona and another to go to the supermarket to pick up something to have for dinner. Meals are generally very simple and cheap, I certainly am not eating out half as much as I was while I was travelling through Asia, obviously because its so much more expensive here. Most of my meals consist of a tin of tuna and a simple salad. We often have pasta and ketchup, which Ole has pretty much mastered. These generally is suffice for dinner. We do well to get up in the mornings and make the most of our free breakfast. I would have to say that the best brekkies have been in Madrid. Croissants and fresh doughnuts, also a massive selection of cereals and toasts are served every morning.

I really don't have much bad to say about out hostel in Madrid, we were in a central location, there was plenty of information available in the common rooms, the place was brand new, so everything was clean and well maintained. I would say the only negative was the quality of sleep, particularly last night when there was a lot of noise coming into our room from the street below. Another bonus was for two of the three nights we were there, it was only myself, Ole and one Canadian girl sharing the 12-bed dorm, that was very cool. As you can see, we quickly made ourselves at home. This morning we got up early for breakfast, grabbed our bags and went for a walk to the main park in the city centre. It was great, kept us occupied for the couple hours we had to wait to get the train to Barcelona. The trains are quite good in Spain and we’re on one of the high speed ones, so we have been sitting on around 300kmp/h, for the last few hours. Looking forward to checking into the hostel and heading straight down to the beach to make the most of the last couple hours of sun light today.