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Cursed soccer fans!

Hello again from Madrid. We had a jam packed day, and we still have some more to do tonight. After a night of minimal sleep (AC Madrid and Porto (Portugal) soccer teams were playing last night), we spent the late morning at the Prado museum where we saw many a great masterpiece paintings by Goya, Velazquez, Rembrandt, and Rafael. After we perused the royal gardens - since it's winter here most of the plants and trees were not in bloom yet. We had lunch at the oldest restaurant in the world, Restaurante Botin, established in 1723. Then we went on an excellent "private" tour of landmarks established during the Bourbon rule of Madrid.

Our area of Madrid is pretty crazy right now as the soccer clubs Real Madrid and Liverpool FC have a match tonight. The Plaza Mayor is packed with obnoxious Brits singing their drunken chants. At first we thought it was pretty cool, now it's just annoying. We'll probably get little sleep again tonight as the victorious fans revel outside our window until 5 AM. Oh, well. just another night in Madrid.

We'll post some more pictures of Paris and Madrid soon, so check back again.

Hasta Luego!

Hola from Madrid

Hey everyone we just made it into Madrid, after a 12 hour train ride from Paris. We arrived around 10:30 am. It was a few hours before our hostel was ready for us, so we walked around Sol. It was so nice because it was about 60 degrees, a huge change from very cold paris. We were very excited not to have to wear coats!

Madrid is just beautiful. Very pretty, very clean, and very easy to get around. After walking miles to get from point A to point B in Paris, this is nothing! Madrid is a very compact city. You can get just about anywhere on foot, no need for metro.

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Bon Jour from Paris!!

Bon Jour!

We are now in Paris, chillin at the Pompidou Center with FREE wifi!! (minus the coffee we had to buy). The Pompidou is one of the worlds most fascinating architectural structures.

So Paris: There is much improvement in our accomodations compared to the GENERATOR hostel in London. Its a very small, off the beaten path, and very "quaint". OH, and there are NO SHOWERS! Oops, ill look more closely at the descriptions. Oh well, at least we are more European this way.

So the first day, we arrived, we checked-in, went to see the Pantheon, Notre Dame, I saw a Body Shop in Paris (very cool), we went through a local market and bought some oranges and bananas (they were SOO cheap, and they served as our breakfests for the next couple of days!)

Day two in Paris:

We say EVERYTHING else. We did a lot! We walked the Champs-Elysees, saw the Arch de Triumphe, Effil Tower, Ecole Militerie, Invaledes (fyi: where Napolean is buried), the outside of the Louvre, and finally the Pompidou, and then back to the Hotel Victoria.

Day three in Paris:

We walked the Louvre, and now we are writing this post!
After this we plan to find the carnevale parade and watch until we have to catch our OVERNIGHT train to MADRID!!!!

Au revoir until tomorrow.....Bienvenidos a Madrid!!!

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GREETINGS FROM LONDON!!!

Cheerio!! We are writing you from THE GENERATOR Hostel in London, England. Just north of Russell Square station. We've seen all the major landmarks and several museums.

We sat in an amazing Choral service at Westminster Abbey, where we listened to the beautiful choir.

Oh, yeah we totally got lost, thanks to our fantastic navigational expertise ( we didn't know which way is North!!) Anyway, we finally got to see the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London just at nightfall.

We've been doing OK with our budget.... been eating breakfast at the hostel, and sneaking away some pieces of bread with jelly and butter for lunch!! We slipped and sprung for a nice Indian dinner last night. Oh, and the ridiculous expensive trip form the airport.... 40 pounds!! Big mistake, but lesson learned....don't trust people to get you the best deal. But WOW, everything is REALLY pricey here, I'm am very excited to start paying with Euros tomorrow.

Oh, but we went on a FREE tour this morning and went to all the palaces, all the museums are FREE plus got into the Westminster Abbey for FREE!! Oh yeah, we're good!

So tomorrow we are off to Paris.....the train leaves at 6:40 AM!!

Tonight we dine...without a kitchen table!

Melanie and I are sitting at Caribou right now next to our aparment building. We've packed away our computer and most everything else. My dad and brother are on their way down to help us move tomorrow (thanks guys!). That's really all we have for now. Thanks to everyone who came out to the Lift last Saturday. We may post again if we have anything worth mentioning before we hit the airport. Peace.