Today Chad arrived. I picked him at 10.20 more about and I took him to my place, so he could put down his huge backpack and other stuff.
He's going to do a world trip for a year, sponsored by "his work". He's really cool. Like, he arrived from LA in Madrid, he stays for 3 days or something and than he'll move, all around spain. Then he'll meet friends and family from Northern Europe and he's going to stay untill July? Next stop Asia, benjing probably and Tokyo and Thailand... some other islands over there, than AUSTRALIA (Awesome awesome), New zealand, Brasil, Argentina and back to his home.... it's his american dream.
So, I'm his first 'hoster', and I think he's getting fun!
Today we went to Sol, see calle and plaza Mayor. We saw some buildings over there, then Almudena. The cathedral was closed but we get the chance to see de crypt...pretty amazing. From Almudena we saw the gardens and went back to sol by calle arenal, where we had the chance to see an amazing violin violoncel band, and they were doing great...people were amazed.
We ate at mazanitos (I dont know the exact name...can't remember) and it was also tasty! very nice...
We hang around Sol, pass El corte ingles, we saw 3 floors on the fnac building...it's huge huge! and confortable also and we stood at the square seeing a Mexican band while we waited for Alexandra.
She arrived and we went by subway until Capricho, green line (5) heading Alameda de Osuna. We wanted to see Capricho park and it was a good surprise, very pretty and with good vibes... we saw squirrels, I was much impressed by the nature of that place... much preserved.
We went back until callao, go to starbucks, where Catalina met us. We had our coffees and then we went all gran via until banco de espana, where it is Cibelles Palace building, an unique piece of art and architecture. It was a nice walk, while Ivandro told me about a book that tells a story of a rich father and a poor father, the poor father being wealthier than the rich one. It was nice. A world where you have the same abilities to be rich as an already rich one.
From there we go down the Paseo del Prado until Botanical garden but it was already closed (yeah, sad) and from there I went back home with Chad ,while Ivandro went again to Reina Sofia museum and Catalina and Alexandra went till McDonalds for wifi.
We had our dinner, strange salad made by me, of course, and from there we listen to good music, chat a bit, work on our computers and planning the day of tomorow.
I'll upload some photos one of these days, so you can check and confirm all the things.
cya
