madrid.

whaddup melbourne
it's 6pm here in madrid fyi
4am in melbourne

and mels still isn't asleep. *sighhhh

SOOOO
i am currently blogging from Hotel Europa in madrid. free wifi FTW !
this hotel is better than the barcelona one by far. that one was a 4 star hotel but we slept on like bunk beds
this one is like in the heart of the city, so we don't have to travel far like we did for that one.
it's also muchhhhh better looking. ill upload photos if i can after i blog.
perks of it being in the heart of the city ? WELL the shopping district is like downstairs :O
our room has a view of the street which is pretty cool. also the central plaza is like 20 metres away, so there is access to all different other streets..

OKAY back to barcelona.
feels like ages ago but i'll tell you what i can remember.
so i think it was 3 days ago? 2nd of jan... we didn't do much i think. i remember the soccer match between Barcelona FC & Villareal was on that day. so just my bro and my dad went to watch it. i was soooo tired that day, i just slept before dinner and slept til the next day.

the next day was much more exciting.
we took the tourist bus from the main plaza in Barcelona called 'Placa de Catalunya' which is where we were for the countdown to 2010.
definitely looks better in the daytime.
so their tourist buses are wayyy coool. cooler than melbourne. but not free like melbourne :(((( it's like this whole hop on, hop off system
they are pretty much double decker buses! so you sit upstairs and they give you free headphones. and the pre recorded thing tells you about all the sites and history and stuff. like 'To the right is the......built in......' lalala
thing about europe is... it's so much older than australia, so it has soooo much rich history. like all their building are absolutely stunning. compared to melbourne where it's just modern buildings and etc.
their buildings have so much attention to detail it is insane.

so hopped off at the 'Sagrada Familia'. which is like Barcelona's landmark. it's not complete coz it's just soooo MASSIVE and beautiful outside&inside so it will only be complete in like 20 years. someone come back with me ? :D
it's so popular that the line to go inside can be so long that you have to wait like 1 hour. and even inside, the lines to the lift is like 1 hour 30 minute wait !
it's worth it though, coz the view from the top is the wholeeee city. pretty spectacular.
after that we were hungry.
so we ate maccassssss
2 McPollos = McChickens
and the CBO = cheese bacon onion burger
had 2 meals
and it came with wedges !
and also they offered lipton ice tea as a drink !
unfortunately couldn't eat mcflurries coz the machine was broken. gahh so typical of maccas.

after that we just jumped back on the bus and it took us past all these pretty places. see pictures attached
SO COLD GAHHH
so freaking cold
have to put on like a billion layers a day
and apparently barcelona will be the 'warmest place' on our trip :O
how is the weather in melbourne?
beachhhhh ?

tomorrow we are heading off to oxford via london by plane. apparently it is 0 degrees in london. so im kinda screwed.
ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY THOUGH OMG ! :D cannot wait. so exciteeeed
ENGLISHHHHHH <3


yesterday.
arrived in madrid in the morning after a 3 hour train ride. we took their equivalent of the vline. except their vline is like so much cooler. seats were like airplane seats man !
madrid is fair cool, but barcelona is cooler.
much more touristy in barcelona - as in more things to see. and i reckon barcelona is like an upgrade of madrid. coz madrid's metro is like old but bacelona's looks exactly the same but cleaner and just generally bettererer

went shopping yesterday and bought stuff ! woooh
2 jackets from H&M. i'll be sure to show you when i get back
& my bro bought a jacket from the men's section of h&m.
brands like mango, zara, H&M and cortefiel are really popular here
went shopping in this district called 'Gran Via' which is their New York times square equivalent. but not as cool LOL

for dindins, wanted to satisfy my parents' cravings of chinese food. LOL that's right. they couldn't last even 5 days. ahahah
so we went to a chinese restaurant near gran via. decent foood. but not as good as melbourne ofcourse !


todayyyy.
took the 'Madrid Vision' which is madrid's tourist bus. wasnt as cool as barcelona....>_>>
ahaha
buuuuuuut. we got off at the 'Santiago Bernabeu' which is Real Madrid Football Club's stadium
did a tour of the place.
TWAS AMAZING.
ill put up the pics.
i felt so cooooool.
took a pic with christiano ronaldo (but not really)



okay that's about it.
oxford tmorr, hopefully i can see my beloved shriya who's in godstoweeeee

I MISS EVERYONE :((((
i feel like i missing heaps of goings on in melbourne
gahhh
keep me updated everyone !
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love you all
xo




new years eve at barcelona


one of the many plazas off la rumbla in barcelona


market on la rumbla in barcelona