Spain Travel Blogs

i went back to the hostel with hanie, dave and alex about 12 midnight, as i have a flight back to düsseldorf at 8:30 in the morning and hanie and dave too early in the morning. alex still had his flight back to scotland in the afternoon, but he wanted to get a good nights sleep. but before that i …

If I am not wrong I woke up at 3am in the morning, had to be early at the airport to catch my flight back to Barcelona. It was dark and cold and I was alone at the bus stop. I am a bit paranoid lol, so the few ppl that could cross on the streets, well, everybody was suspicious haha. Although t…

As today was the last day of our trip and we had heaps of time to get to the airport, we decided to enjoy the last of the sun as best we could. We took our time to get outside though, packing, reading a bit more and just getting the most out of our room at the hostel.   We left around noon,…

So today was the day of the "Madrid meet-up!" There wasn't that many other tb's coming to it either then the ones already in the group who were staying at the Pop Hostel. It was Tirso (who lives in Madrid) and then Cameron (a TB from Australia who currently lives/works in Africa) and then JC who is…

Casa Milà, commonly known as La Pedrera, is a timeless building which never goes out of fashion. From the outside, the curved facade and balconies catch your eyes, inviting you to go in & explore. The visual effect evokes waves in the sea and the iron balconies, which look like plants,…

The medieval Castle San Miguel is amazing and you get an authentic feeling when you go inside!At the entrance decorated with historical armors, swords, chests and scrolls of the medieval epoch the Count (Don Rodrigo)and his daughter (the young Countess) welcome you to their Castle. Dinner is served…

Joaquin (one of my friends) has bought an old cadillac!! He is going to restore it. I am impatient to see the final result.

Today I am thinking to myself that I will be home in New Zealand very soon and I am looking forward very much to catching up and telling my friends about Spain, Spanish and my adventures. It has been a journey, happy, hard, hopeful and sometimes homesick but I think I have changed a bit …

Today I'll have a really busy sched: SCHEDULE:   10.15h    Leave office 10.45h    Vaccination 13.00h    Lunch at "YU", review soon 15.00h    Back to office 15.30h    Change clothes, prepare stuff for meetup 16.3…

We checked out of the hotel at 10 am and let our luggage stay in the hotel lobby behind the counter. The check-out went as smoothly as the check-in: maybe because it was the same girl doing it and she was both friendly, quick and service minded. We decided to walk to 2 km in to the city centre…

We arose early and went to breakfast at a little restaurant near the hotel called Cafeteria Veneto.  We had some churros, tortillas de patatas, and coffee.  It was a great meal!  We took the #53 bus again towards Sol.   Once again, this time due to construction, we could no…

This morning it was raining cats and dogs in Ronda and temperature was below 10 degrees. We therefore decided to abandon our plans to visit Gibraltar and headed straight for Malaga, where our plane would leave this evening. We crossed a long and winding road through the mountains here a speed of mo…

From El Escorial we came back to Madrid. This will be our last day here, in this awesome city. We were alreay so hungry that we went again to our favourite chinese resto where we ate yesterday (Near plaza Espańa). And again we had lots of good food:) and we saw again that nice waitress and we list…

The next morning I got up early (at 8) took a shower and went to the Aquarium. To get there I had to cross the bridge in the harbour. The area overthere was very nice. It had a nice shoppingcentre and it took my quite a while to get across the bridge since it was so pretty there! I took a lot of pi…

Today's my last day in Madrid. I will be meeting my Spanish friend, David, again. We're heading to the park because even though I told him I had been to the park with Henri two days ago, I never saw any lake (we probably didn't walk further in) and David said "are you sure you went to the park?!" h…