Day 4 – Madrid!

This is kind of day four, hard to determine really! Anyway we caught the plane at 5am Perth time from Doha to Madrid which was a decent flight, got some hours of needed sleep, I sort of planned my sleeping to Spanish time, to start to get used to it. So we landed in Madrid at around 8am. The airport was a ghost town at that time, and we had to catch a train to get to our baggage! It didn’t help that a group of over 30 American students were on the same flight as us either. Eventually we got out and an expensive taxi ride later we made it to the hotel, which is nice and similar to the Singapore hotel. Except this time, no English channels, but that doesn’t matter much!

After showering and lying down for the first time in over 16 hours Ash and I went out for a quick look around. It was around 10 in the morning and in Spain it is like a ghost town at that time, hardly anyone on the streets! We grabbed a snack from Burger King and explored a bit more before going back to the hotel for a rest, as it was technically like 6pm for us not 12. We watched some TV shows for a couple of hours then headed back out for a cold drink and explored some more, seeing some of the Royal Palace which was great and some parkland which was surprisingly quiet for something in the middle of Madrid. Ash and I also gathered some info on tourist bus tours for the coming days which is great and then rested a bit more in the apartment as it is technically 10pm Perth time for us, despite it being early for the Spanish. Not to mention it’s a painfully sunny 37 degrees out!

After more rest (we are very tired) we headed out to grab something to eat and got some nice gourmet pizza slices, which were quite nice. We walked around whilst eating for half an hour or so and returned to our hotel room to retire and get some good sleep for the first time in well over a day!