Hola from Madrid

So it turns out, Spanish and Portugese sometimes similar, sometimes not at all. For instance, Ola in Portugese, Hola in Spanish. Obrigado in Portugese, Gracias in Spanish. Weird I know.

I took an overnight train from Lisbon to Madrid. I got to the train station really early because I was paranoid it would take me awhile to figure out where I was going. Turns it out it was easy and I waited for 3 hours. In those three hours, 2 other Asians appeared in the waiting area. Which is weird because my entire time in Lisbon, I did not see a single Asian person. Not one! I was hoping one of them spoke English but they both turned out to be anti social Japanese guys. Sigh.

The train took about 7 hours and made me long for the bullet train in Japan because this train moved at the speed of a donkey. By the time I got the hotel in Madrid, I could feel some sniffles coming on so I took it easy yesterday. Just walked around the neighborhood and got to bed early.

Today it is lovely out. Sunny, 60. Lots of tourists and locals walking about since its the weekend. I spent the entire morning at the Prado Museum. Even for an art moron like myself, theres such much to see there. Nothing contemporary or modern thank god. Lots of Goya.

Lillo, I had a calamari sandwich today. Yummy good!

Also, from watching BBC World, CNN and looking at all the newspapers here and in Lisbon, apparently the primaries is a big deal to the rest of the world too. Also, big news according to CNN, the lifting of the head scarf ban in Turkey. Who knew?

Thank you for reading and posting your comments. I love it! I miss you all dearly. I havent laughed in a week because apparently no matter what country you´re in, laughing aloud by when youre by yourself is considered crazy.

PS - I still cant figure out where the apostrophe is on these crazy keyboards.