Well we finally left Mallorca after 6 blissfully relaxing days and flew to Madrid. To be honest I think all of us were getting pretty anxious to get to our programs. Olf drove us to the airport and after a 6 hour layover in Valencia, we finally arrived in Madrid. This hostel proved to be a pretty good one and we were happy. We had delicious kebabs for dinner and the next day Jake left us early in the morning for Seville.
Jenna and I were on our own for the day! We were in Madrid, Spain's capital, we needed to go sight-seeing! I would like to say that we were pretty proud of ourselves navigating around Madrid without the map-masters Jake and Whitney. We saw the sights (even though we weren't quite sure what we were looking at... "okay so is THIS the palace?"), payed an excessive amount for a tiny little baby salad, and had Kebabs for dinner again. Then we hit up El Corte Ingles, which we had seen ads for in every city we stayed at, and I got a new camera! Then we went on a romantic date and split a pitcher of sangria and tried the "spanish omelette" tapa which turned out to be extremely tasty, and talked about how weird/nervous/excited/scared/anxious we felt to be leaving the next day to finally be going to the cities we were going to spend the next 3 1/2 months living in!!! It was a lovely evening and the next morning Jenna left bright and early to catch the train to San Sebastian and I made the hour trip on the metro back to the airport. Finally, I was on my way to Aix-en-Provence!
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| to quote Jenna: "Erica with some dead Spaniards" |
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| The square where we had our date |
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