Dear Abigail:

Sorry its been a while little sister, I've been hermitting away at home doing nothing and feeling sorry for my self as usual.

First of all let me tell you about Madrid:





These photos were taken on one of our many stops on the way. We started off leaving the city quite late and it was very very windy so we had to drive quite slowly. We stopped of at many weird roadside cafes in anonymous towns. I liked that a lot though. This one town/village was amazing and had these weird old rock buildings (like caves or something from the flintstones). It also had this old bar that looked like it had closed for a while. It was like the house of horrors at Disney. It had all these old signs and other things made out of old junk and metal. It was amazing and had cobwebs and old wooden steps and art deco styling. I really want it to be open again and to visit there again.
We finally arrived in Madrid very tired indeed. It was all very different and made Barcelona feel very small indeed. We were met by Borja's friends as we were going to be staying there. We chatted with them for a while and then went out on the strange metro to the city centre. The buildings were so big and old and amazing. I really liked it. We went out for drinks in these old busy bars. In Madrid you get a free tapas when you buy a drink. So with each drink you get this different plate. We had paella and fish things. They were very tasty indeed. We were really tired so we went back to the house we were staying at and promptly fell asleep. Borja had to wake up really early to go and take his exam. I slept more and then woke up and met Borja in the centre. We walked around in the sun (the weathers better in Madrid!) and then went for more tapas and for lunch. We then headed back still really tired and had a siesta and later went out to a packed bar to watch football haha. On Sunday we had another late start and then went to have an amazing tapas feast. It was really different, its more "Spanish/European" culture there than Barcelona. It was nice to see everyone out on a Sunday enjoying tapas with all the family. It was then time to head off and we drove solidly and just had one stop and then finally got into Barcelona. It was so nice to be back with its smaller roads, the sea and little buildings.







I hope you're well and I will update more with other new things