Since more than three weeks I am back home in Germany. It happened not much. Going for a walk with the dogs, going to the cinema here, making a tour with the bike there aso. But this weekend I've been to Madrid to visit Cris and Gema. It was the first time I've been in Spain. I even have never been in France. And never in a big city like this. I guess, Stockholm has been the biggest. And it is so beautiful! I arrived at Friday evening and stayed until Monday afternoon. Therefore, at Saturday and Sunday Gema, Cris and Alex (Gema's flatmate) showed me the city. And I loved that. I don't like to be a tourist, to see places everybody sees and to make pictures everybody makes to say with the same words, how beautiful it was. On the other side, there exist places everybody who has been in Madrid should have seen. Thanks to my friends, I had both. Individual Madrid and classical Madrid.
On Saturday Alex, Cris, Gema and I made a sightseeing trip and walked from one famous place to another. Like tourists. But with them it was special. Individual. Original. We visited the chapel, the palace, saw theatres and a lot of monuments. The main streets of Madrid are of cars like you would imagine for a city with far more than 5 million inhabitants. But when you leave one of those streets you are imidiately in a lovely small road as quite as in the Gammla Stan in Stockholm.
Sunday, I saw the Ground Zero of the 11M attacks and visited a big park. For lunch we had Spanish tapa, of course. I love it. Nobody has an own plate, just a fork and a knife and then you eat together from every plate each with a different food. In the evening we made a preparty in Gema's tiny room and went out at midnight to a pub. We came home at four in the morning. Sweden should definitely think about its opening times for pubs.
Of course, I saw some funny things, too. For example: traffic lights do not seem to be compulsory. In rush hours they need policemen at the middle of the crossroads to show the drivers to stop when the light is traffic light becomes red. But I felt comfortable. Before I heard, Spain would be crazy. But it wasn't. It has been a relief. It has been like three old erasmus days again. Some of the best erasmus days.
And my trips are not over yet. Maybe this week, but definitely this weekend, I will go to Aachen. To Leipzig next week and in two weeks I will be back in Sundsvall.
Since more than three weeks I am back home in Germany. It happened not much. Going for a walk with the dogs, going to the cinema here, making a tour with the bike there aso. But this weekend I've been to Madrid to visit Cris and Gema. It was the first time I've been in Spain. I even have never been in France. And never in a big city like this. I guess, Stockholm has been the biggest. And it is so beautiful! I arrived at Friday evening and stayed until Monday afternoon. Therefore, at Saturday and Sunday Gema, Cris and Alex (Gema's flatmate) showed me the city. And I loved that. I don't like to be a tourist, to see places everybody sees and to make pictures everybody makes to say with the same words, how beautiful it was. On the other side, there exist places everybody who has been in Madrid should have seen. Thanks to my friends, I had both. Individual Madrid and classical Madrid.
On Saturday Alex, Cris, Gema and I made a sightseeing trip and walked from one famous place to another. Like tourists. But with them it was special. Individual. Original. We visited the chapel, the palace, saw theatres and a lot of monuments. The main streets of Madrid are of cars like you would imagine for a city with far more than 5 million inhabitants. But when you leave one of those streets you are imidiately in a lovely small road as quite as in the Gammla Stan in Stockholm.
Sunday, I saw the Ground Zero of the 11M attacks and visited a big park. For lunch we had Spanish tapa, of course. I love it. Nobody has an own plate, just a fork and a knife and then you eat together from every plate each with a different food. In the evening we made a preparty in Gema's tiny room and went out at midnight to a pub. We came home at four in the morning. Sweden should definitely think about its opening times for pubs.
Of course, I saw some funny things, too. For example: traffic lights do not seem to be compulsory. In rush hours they need policemen at the middle of the crossroads to show the drivers to stop when the light is traffic light becomes red. But I felt comfortable. Before I heard, Spain would be crazy. But it wasn't. It has been a relief. It has been like three old erasmus days again. Some of the best erasmus days.
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