Day 8 / Cordoba to Granada
A pigeon dropped poo on my hair, forhead, shoulder and back while I was resting at a bench.
Beautiful day.
Day 9 / Granada to Madrid
- Cheese and Rusk for breakfast at a bench
- Shopping at Zara
- Have a big fight
- Lost our gide book
- Went to Al Hambra
- Turkish food for dinner
- Bussed to Madrid, it’s the most uncomfortable bus ride during the trip.
Day 10 / Madrid
- Spent abt 5 hrs at the Plado Museum
When we were waiting at a traffic light on the way to the Plado museum, we met a strange guy. This homeless looking guy came to us and started telling us his story, I wasn’t really paying attention to him but Tariq listened to him and he even asked me if I have a euro or not. So I asked the guy to tell me the story again and the dialogs between us were like this;
The guy; I’m from Australia and I had a car accident several days ago. I know I dress like this ( wearing totally worn out + dirty clothes) but I really had an accident. I need to go to Australian Embassy to ask for help so I’m asking 7 people to give me a euro so that I’ll have 7 euros to get there.
Me; Well… I don’t know.. What do you think Tariq?
Tariq said to me; Well… umm do you have any change?
I’m thinking ( What? Are you insame Tariq? Just say no!)
The guy to me; DO YOU HAVE A EURO?? ( in a very rude way)
Me to the guy; I don’t really know. It’s not a matter of if I have a euro or not but if I can trust your story or not, don’t you think so?
Tariq looking at me with bewildered face
Me; Fine (took out my wallet from my bag and I saw his eyes staring at my wallet fiercely. It was as if a hungry dog looking at piece of meat on the ground. I was sooo scared thinking what if he grabs my wallet and runs away when I was trying to find a euro coin.
I found a euro coin and gave it to him. You can imagine how angry I was at Tariq after he had left. I’m glad nothing bad happened to us but just thinking of the worst scenario made me furious for a while.
- The spanish restaurant we went for lunch was great. Great spanish food served in good timing,friendly waiters with English menu. I say this was the best restaurant we went on the trip.
- Went to see Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum.
- Shopping
- Kono Pizza for dinner. Tariq liked it very much and ate two of them. The cashier guy I think was gay liked Tariq a lot. He kept looking at Tariq with a flirting look and smile. This happened quite a lot during the trip so I wasn’t so mind. But is tariq fascinating than me to spanish men? Umm let’ s not think about it that way. http://www.konopizza.co.nz/
Day 11 / Pamplona to Barcelona
Running of the bulls was very disappointing. I didn’t like it at all. City was in terrible condition when we got there.
Day 12 / Barcelona
- Sagrada familia was amazing. We both loved it very much.
- At an internet cafe owned by Pakistanee people, I saw Tariq speaking in Urdu almost for the fist time.
- Barcelona has a soccer team called FC Barcelona and we went to see the stadium.
- Went to see one of the buildings designed by Gaudi at night but we needed a reservation to go inside so we looked up the tall building from outside. I would definitely like to go there if there is a chance to go to Barcelona again.
Day 13 / Barcelona, Aveneon, Nice
- Bussed to Aveneon and trained to Nice
- Our hotel room in Nice was big and there was a kitchen with a small fridge as well. I reckon all the furniture in the room was from IKEA but it was still nice and clean room so we liked it.
- The beaches in Nice were rocky and the water wasn’t as blue as Okinawa or Thailand but there were always full of people on vacation.
Day 14 / Nice
All the shops except very few souvenior shops were all closed due to Sunday. I’m sure this won’t happen neither in Canada nor Japan.
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