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Tuesday night I conscientiously charged up my mp3 player for 7 hours and set the alarm on my phone to wake me up for 7.15am, all in preparation for a day spent traveling. Then I fell asleep listening to the … Continue reading
This hostel is a bit boring. It’s clean alright, but clinical. All the taps, lights and showers are on a one minute timer switch. Feel like I’m at a YHA Youth Hostel. Slept uneasily. Have a feeling that I woke … Continue reading
In Barcelona now, feeling a bit better but not completely. Still, most of my time in Madrid was in the hostel. Lying down. Drinking juice. All that. It’s a really good hostel but there just wasn’t a good crowd around … Continue reading
Day 2 in Madrid
I seem to have come down with some form of “cold,” which is a pain in the fucking arse. On the positive side I brought enough drugs to medicate myself into a stupor. Hooray. My face is looking a lot … Continue reading
For reasons that remain at best unclear a day later, there was no available transport whatsoever from Lisbon to Madrid during the daytime, which left me an extra day to wander around the city and see all the things I … Continue reading