Hey Everybody! We arrived in Madrid this morning after taking a 10 hour train ride from Lisbon, preceeded by a 3 hour train ride from Porto. Steph and I slept soudly pretty much the whole way, so it didn't seem too bad, but poor Sheri-Lee had a long trip; she only slept a couple hours! The weather here was clear today and about 10-12 degrees, so cool for Spain, but nothing for us to complain about! We're staying here with Elaine and Brent Miller, connections of ours through friends in Saskatoon, and it is sooooo nice to be here in a home!! Brent is away for work today but Elaine was here to welcome us. Her condo is really big and nice- we're not even staying in bunkbeds!! One of the first things we did was put a load of laundry in :) Madrid has an amazing metro system, so today we made good use of it and found our way to Sol, the old downtown of Madrid. All of the buildings are so old and beautiful! Madrid seems richer than Portugal, but its still very much a different culture than North America. I love that the language here is Spanish, so I can understand some things, and communicate at least a little bit!! Portuguese, wow, it is so incomprehensible!
Have I talked about our time in Porto? I don't believe that I have. The best part was a boat trip down the Rio Douro. The sun was shining and everything was beautiful! A girl from our hostel named Claire made the trip with us, and so we got a 4 bed-room which was pretty fun, although compared to our amazing hostel in Lisbon the place wasn't very nice (after that and now staying at Elaine's, we are going to be completely spoiled!!)
Elaine is letting us use her Skype tonight, so I'll be calling home soon. We tried to upload some pictures earlier but they didn't work, so maybe I'll try again tomorrow? There aren't lots of people waiting for the computer here, or staring over our shoulders while we type, so I'll probably write on here again in the next couple days! We plan on spending 5 days in Madrid, maybe making a trip or two out to Segovia or Toledo. I'm getting excited to see the Prado!!!
love love love
Starr
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