¿Hola from España?
May 4th, 2007 -- Posted in >8] | 1 Comment »Ok. I didn´t really intend to write a question but I´m using a Spanish keyboard here so humor me. 
Em and I JUST woke up from our siesta. Boy! I´m not sure if it´s for me. We´re still jet-lagged so doing a siesta feels like going to sleep for the night. Getting up is tough! We´ll see how we settle into that bit of Thpanish culture.
Things are going great! Fabuloso. We had a little trouble finding our hostel when we exited the metro station. We found the street easily, but finding the actual building was tough. We ended up going back into some hair salon twice and the woman got all frustrated.
We´ve been using our Spanish quite a bit here. I´m a bit worried about visiting Portugal so I´ll be spending some time learning some common phrases before we reach there. I want to email my high school Spanish teacher and thank her.
Today we went to the Palacio Real (Royal Palace) and it reminded me very much of Versailles (maybe because the King who commissioned it wanted to have his own Versailles). The architectural styles are very similar to what I´ve seen in France. Of course, I didn´t say that to any Spaniards.
It´s a bit chilly here in Madrid (think Fall) but it seems like it will be warming up quite soon. Walking through the some beautiful gardens had me forgetting about work back home. I LOVE VACATION. Wish you all were here. I had some flashbacks to Bryan, Neelesh, Eugene and I having some beer in the middle of the day back in Paris.
No pictures but more updates to come. To DSLR owners: the camera has totally come in handy! I feel like it´s helped out in some low light conditions (for example, churches). Suuuweeet!
Adios por ahora,
Pedro