Friday, August 17, 2007

19th December 2006 (Monday) – Madrid


We woke up early and walked around looking for something to eat for breakfast. Dac had a craving for Mickiedies and we ended up spending E7.75 on Macdonald’s breakfast. It was extremely expensive. I had the Big Big Mac (no typo error here). Its real huge.

After breakfast, we went to Puerta del Sol. We are there to look for “Kilometer Zero” which is the centre of Spain. It is just located in front of the entrance of the Governor’s office.

We walked to La Mallorquina which is famous for sweet Napolitana cream filled pastry (E1) and beef-filled agujas pastries (E1.50). We bought one of each to try. The shop was very crowded and had old pictures of how Real Madrid looked like.

We walked to Plaza Mayor next. We found a Tourist Booth at Plaza Mayor and used its free internet access for a while. We then exited Plaza Mayor on Calle Cindad Rodrigo and went to Casa Rua which is famous for their cheap bocadillos de calamares (fried squid ring sandwiches). Each cost E1.85.

We then walked to Royal Palace. We took some pictures. Dac took a picture with a statue with his bum facing the camera. They do look quite alike, haha. On the way back, we brought some groceries from Champion. We spent E2.64.

We bought 2 more bocadillos cos they were super crispy and delicious at E3.70. We also bought more pastries from La Mallorquina. We spent E8.30. We brought all the stuff back to the hotel.

We then went to Camper and bought 2 pairs of shoes. One for Dac and one for myself. We spent E198. After buying the shoes, we took the Metro back to the hotel. We did not buy a Metro ticket back to the hotel because we saw the locals jumping over the gate without buying their tickets. We did just that, hahaha. Save us some money!!!! We bought Burger King back to the hotel for dinner. We used up all our Euros cos tomorrow we are going to London. Yipeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

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