So I have been meaning to start this blog for a while now... Not sure how useful or interesting any of my information will be but here goes. Started my trip in Malaga, by far my favourite place so far. As soon as I got to the Hostel I found some other English speaking people that I hung out with for pretty well the rest of the time. Picasso was from Malaga. So there was a neat museum there for him, which I didn't visit. I meant to but ended up being waaaay to busy laying on the beach. The night life was also perfect there. The spanish start drinking pretty late though, the clubs are all pretty empty before 1 am. So this was my Malaga trip
I also went to a bull fight. I knew it would be a little rough, but I had no idea. I watched six bulls meet their doom. It was an experience, but I won't be doing that again. Dark stuff.
Malaga was beautiful though, we went to the top of a huge mountain there and took pictures (it was a hill I guess, but i was hungover so it may as well have been everest)
Next, I went to Lisbon to meet weezy and her brother. So as soon as I arrive I decide that it would be easier to just have a taxi take me to the Hotel and not have to worry about it... So I show the Taxi driver the address of the hotel and ask him to go. He rolls his eyes a bit the way all taxi drivers seem to do and agrees to go. I haven't yet met a taxi driver who doesn't act inconvenienced to drive you somewhere. Anyway, 15 minutes later we arrive in Amadora, which isn't actually in Lisboa, its the ghetto outside of it. Great. So the driver stops at a park and tells me that the hotel is just around the corner but he couldn't drive his car there. Fine, which way? He points a bit more and speaks some spanish to me that I clearly haven't understood the whole time. I walk around and see no hotels at all, but find several places to get a massage or have your nails did. I call louise. They are headed to the hotel now, they'll meet me there. They can't really give me directions because I have no idea where I am. I call the hotel, again, no help. So I ask a random bystander who looks friendly. FALSE. Not friendly, he assured me that he knew where the hotel was, started walking to it, asked to see the address again, snagged my phone and took off. I chased him as far as I could with my huge backpack and purse. Jerk. A nice old couple took me to their house and let me use their internet and ended up actually driving me to the hotel. Bless them. I would have wandered around for hours if it weren't for them. I didn't do much else while I was in Lisbon. Weezy, Manuel, and I went to the beach the next day, but other than that I slept, and that's it. By the third day I was just ready to get out of there.
Next I went to London. It was a huge relief to speak English again. This was mostly just a refuel stop. I got conditioner and things of that nature and bought a new phone that I can use in Scotland next year. I also did bicycle rental and rode around Hyde park. There are these really neat proms in Albert hall in London for this month where there are classical music concerts every night. Might have been fun to go to one, but as usual my desire for food outweighed any other. Then I rode around the park some more and made friends with the swans.
Next was Paris. I met another english speaker in the Hostel and decided to go see sights with him. I am starting to feel like a bum following people around haha. we decided to walk to Notre Dame and then from there to the Eiffel tower. We were going to take the Metro, but all of the lines along the way were under construction or something, so we just walked. It was nice, I got to see a lot of things I have missed other times. There were a bunch of vendors selling really old books along the Seine. I am such a sucker for old books. I had to keep reminding myself that I don't speak french and couldn't afford them. Then we decided to just buy a bottle of wine and sit in the grass by the eiffel tower. There is always someone selling something there. We got suckered into buying a 2 Euro rose, but I quite liked it afterward.
So we stayed and drank our wine and then some champagne and met some people from new zealand to hang out with... That was pretty much it for paris, the next night I went to sleep at like ten o'clock.
That's all for now and I suppose I'll write more when there's more to tell.
