Monday Morning in Madrid Spain

Sunday Evening February 22 & Monday Morning February 23, 2009

Valter, our host in Lisboa was so great about getting our taxi cab and telling him just which bus station we needed to be at to catch the 10:40 pm bus to Sevilla……. The British fellows (a group of 6) were so happy to help us downstairs with our bags…..trouble was…the 10:40 bus left at 8:40… It was written on our tickets as military time and we did not catch that little item. Anyway our options at that time of night was to sleep in the bus station until 9:40 AM when the next bus to Sevilla Spain left or catch the 10:30 Bus to Madrid, we opted to take the train to Madrid and catch a couple of extra days there to get our bearings so when we come back on March 1st we will know our way around a little bit. We caught a taxi in Madrid to the Mad Hostel (we already had reservations for later in the week) where were able to book an additional 2 nights, but then we must move out for 4 nights. We plan to take the bus & stay at Granada during this time. Martha has had a busy morning on her computer rearranging our reservations and schedules. She is so good at doing these things… I am just amazed at how quickly she manages to fix everything and get us up and running again. We have to wait until noon when we can officially check in to our rooms then we will be out on the streets of Madrid. Am sure it will be an early night as neither of us has had a lot of sleep….
Goodby for now, Madrid Spain