This is the first post we publish so we wish ourselves ´Happy Happy, Joy Joy´ and a good trip.
The week before was a crazy week, that could have been spread over a month. It included an earthquake, ticket reissues, countless goodbye parties, repeated visits in several equipment stores, last arrangements and some more unplanned events. However, we did maneged to catch our flight and started the trip in Madrid.
We were worried about the mess in Chile and losing the baggage there but we didn´t expect that it will be British Airways that will forget our bags in the flight from London to Madrid. We stayed without one of the bags untill they delivered it to the hostel. But wearing the same underwear for 3 days will not break us! (well, it will break Lilya, but luckily, the bag that was missing wasn´t hers).
Madrid is a beautiful and a very alive city. Too bad that people choose to skip it and go straight to Barcelona. We stay at One Puerto del Sol hostel, it is a very nice place and it is right in the center of the center (Calle Victoria 2). The city is crowded with people all day long and it seems that these people are uneffected by any weather condition. The bars are full and we can hardly get a place in one of the tapas bars in the center. We also waited 15 minutes to get into a great restaurant by the name of ¨La Fluca de Susana¨ on Calle de Arlaban, which is quite close to our hostel (everything is quite close to our hostel). In this place the food and the wine are good and the prices are relatively low.
To our mind, the best thing to do here is just to wander around, even if it´s raining. Unfortunately, most of the time it was raining. But, as many of you know, we are quite equipped for this scenario. We also visited the king´s palace (Palacio Real), which was very fancy and impressive.
The highlight of our Madrid tour was definitely the flamenco show that we saw at the evening. We looked for a small bar with a flamenco show and found the Cardamomo bar (on Cella de Echegaray). They had a flamenco band with two guitars, two singers, one percussionist and two flamenco dancers that were so good that we were simply hypnotized by the movement and the music. It ended too soon, but still it was a great fun.
We are now going to see a museum or two (I´m sure our mothers will be very surprised by this, but don´t get too excited, it´s raining outside, we have nothing else to do). If we´ll do something interesting today we´ll update this post.
So, first post was successfully written. Next stop - Santiago.
Lilya and Oren
The week before was a crazy week, that could have been spread over a month. It included an earthquake, ticket reissues, countless goodbye parties, repeated visits in several equipment stores, last arrangements and some more unplanned events. However, we did maneged to catch our flight and started the trip in Madrid.
We were worried about the mess in Chile and losing the baggage there but we didn´t expect that it will be British Airways that will forget our bags in the flight from London to Madrid. We stayed without one of the bags untill they delivered it to the hostel. But wearing the same underwear for 3 days will not break us! (well, it will break Lilya, but luckily, the bag that was missing wasn´t hers).
Madrid is a beautiful and a very alive city. Too bad that people choose to skip it and go straight to Barcelona. We stay at One Puerto del Sol hostel, it is a very nice place and it is right in the center of the center (Calle Victoria 2). The city is crowded with people all day long and it seems that these people are uneffected by any weather condition. The bars are full and we can hardly get a place in one of the tapas bars in the center. We also waited 15 minutes to get into a great restaurant by the name of ¨La Fluca de Susana¨ on Calle de Arlaban, which is quite close to our hostel (everything is quite close to our hostel). In this place the food and the wine are good and the prices are relatively low.
To our mind, the best thing to do here is just to wander around, even if it´s raining. Unfortunately, most of the time it was raining. But, as many of you know, we are quite equipped for this scenario. We also visited the king´s palace (Palacio Real), which was very fancy and impressive.
The highlight of our Madrid tour was definitely the flamenco show that we saw at the evening. We looked for a small bar with a flamenco show and found the Cardamomo bar (on Cella de Echegaray). They had a flamenco band with two guitars, two singers, one percussionist and two flamenco dancers that were so good that we were simply hypnotized by the movement and the music. It ended too soon, but still it was a great fun.
We are now going to see a museum or two (I´m sure our mothers will be very surprised by this, but don´t get too excited, it´s raining outside, we have nothing else to do). If we´ll do something interesting today we´ll update this post.
So, first post was successfully written. Next stop - Santiago.
Lilya and Oren
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