Spain post one: Madrid in passing.

Well here comes the Spain post and I better do this before my trip to Italy this week though I highly doubt it as I have to sort through about 600 pics. But at least I can post the Madrid portion! God damn I take too many pictures.. I have to be more conscious of that this coming trip cause taking 2GB of pics every time I come back from somewhere is RIDONCULOUS (as how Sandy would say it).

So my Spain trip consisted of flying out Amsterdam Wednesday night, arrive in Madrid for about 4 hours and then bus out early EARLY Thursday morning and arrive in Pamplona at 6am to meet my amiga Maria who lived on the boat!

Madrid was a very nice city but very modern and with an INSANE metro system. Taken from Wiki's site: Serving the city's population of some six million, the Madrid Metro is one of the most extensive and fastest-growing metro networks in the world.^[20] With the addition of a loop serving suburbs to Madrid's south-west "Metrosur", it is now the second largest metro system in Western Europe, second only to London's Underground. In May 2007, Madrid's metro system will be expanded and it will have more than 280 kilometres (175 mi). Craazy...

anyways when I got it the temperature was bearable as it was only mid twenties which was perfect. And being only four hours in Spain only got a taste of what the city would be like. Although already coming into a city where hardly anyone speaks English, I had to keep reading guides on "how to speak Spanish" and simple phrases - thank God for Jeannie's phrase book!