Hola a todos. Yesterday we toured Madrid some more, we walked to the plaza mayor and other streets on our way to the cathedral and el palacio real. the palacio real was incredible, i want to say the most impressive building ive ever seen. each room was decorated in gold and paintings, you talk about a nice place to live. After we toured the palace we walked gran via which is an awesome street, madrid is full of really cool looking building with little streets running through, kinda like london in a way. We also walked to the monument that goes over the road i dont remember the name its right by el parque de buen retiro. we ate and relaxed in the park which was awesome, super relaxing , full of gardens and a lake, similar to central park. After some grub their we headed back to the hostel to say goodbye and we spent the rest of the day at luis and moniquitas house in the suburbs of madrid in a nice house with a pool and trampoline. It was nice to get away from the hostel life for a day and be able to eat and drink as much as we wanted. We left their house a little after noon and were looking forward to catching the train to sevilla little did we know that the eurail thing we had wasnt an actual ticket and since the Sevilla soccer team had a game last night, a final del copa del rey here in madrid all the trains are booked so we returned here to cats hostel. lucky for us we made friends with an argentinian guy here and he´s letting us leave our bags here while we do our thang and go out for the night. we arent paying for a night here but rather going out dancing till late and we have an early train ride tomorrow to sevilla. We hit our first notch in the road but i knew it would come and you have to adjust. peace, Emilio