We left Boston at 6:20 pm on the 13th. It's almost midnight on the 14th. Madrid is 6 hours ahead of home, and since we lost about half a day traveling my internal clock is all thrown off.
Aer Lingus was good. Carolyn and I called it when we said the meal on the plane would be boiled potatoes and carrots. The airport in Dublin is old, but the inside is a shopping mall. The store selection in the airport is probably bigger than that of an actual mall in Ireland. It was pretty chilly in Dublin at 5:30 am, and we had to go outside to get on the second plane. But it was kind of neat being on the runway and such.
The flight to Madrid from Dublin was only 1 hr and 55 min, but Madrid is an hour ahead of Dublin, so we arrived in Madrid at 9:45 am. We waited in line for customs only to have to go back to the end of the line because we didn't fill out some stupid paper. Not that I should have to fill out some dumb paper at customs. The visa should be good enough, especially since it's so difficult to get one. Once we got through the oh so cheery man at customs, we found our luggage and some speedy dude drove us to our apartment. The apartment is on Calle de Leon (in case anyone wants to creeper), and it's pretty sweet. Modern looking with high ceilings etc.
After we took a nap... a 3 hour nap.... we decided we needed some groceries since by that point we were STARVING. So we ventured out into Madrid. We found the nearest El Corte Ingles (which for those of you who don't know what that is think: Macy's + Supermarket + Wal-Mart all rolled into one). So whilst out venturing we found the street where I'll be living for the semester. I took a creep picture in front of it, so when I download it, I'll post it. We had some tapas at a small restaurant where the waiter ignored us, probably because we're American, got our groceries and pack muled it back to the apartment. After nomming on some delicious cheese (if you like cheese you'll LOVE Spain), we decided to get some more tapas. So we went to a restaurant right around the corner from our apartment which was DELICIOUSSS! The sangria was especially yummy (being in a country with no legal drinking age is fantastic ;) ). We walked around a little bit after, but were too tired to really do anything.
So all in all a good first day in Madrid. Hopefully it won't take long for me to be able to find my way around this city. Bueños Noches!!
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