Crazy Times - Part 1

Have had a pretty hectic last few weeks and at last its rest time so I shall update you all on my activities.

Where do i start? Oh yes, well .. a couple of weeks ago it was quite hot so my house mate and I decided to go and sunbathe in one of Madrid's many plazas. Even this you can't do in peace- what with typical Spanish and Italian men wandering by making leery comments. One in particular giving us cause for concern as he wandered by backwards and forwards about 5 times! In the end we needn't have worried as played for the US rugby team (no, i didn't know they had a team either!) and he just wanted to give us some free tickets for a world cup qualifying match against Spain the next day, cool! - even though it was on the condition we cheered for them! ha! as if!
We went to the match and cheered for the Spanish team along with everyone else even though they lost dismally to the bloody yanks.

Anyway that night we made an impulsive decision to visit Salamanca, a city thats about 2 and a half hours east of Madrid. So, off we trot at 8pm to the coach station and hop on a bus. On the way we became slightly concerned when all the hostels we called turned out to be full, but like the true adventurer that i am i took in all in my stride and after arriving at 10.30 with no accomodation to speak of we came to the decision that my flatmate would pull a random so that we could all sleep on their floor - a plan and a half if ever their was one..but luckily for her in the end we managed to find a couple of rooms ..

Having dumped our stuff and got changed we thought a quiet little drink and a meal were called for so that we could have a good nights sleep in order to do some sightseeing the next day...

8am the next morning we were still drinking, so much for the quiet one. The atmosphere in Salamanca was really good though and we had such a good laugh. We must've visited every bar in the whole of the city. I'd definately reccommend a visit, the men are really gullible as well.. I managed to get away with some unbelievably ludicrous tales!! The next day after 4 hours sleep I wasnt feeling so chirpy, but my adventurer's spirit shone through and we set out on a quest to find the legendary frog of Salamanca (amongst the intricate carving's on the university wall there is somewhere carved a frog the story goes if you can find the frog without any help you'll be married within a year.. dun dun duh)

I began to get the feeling that I am never destined to be married when we couldnt even find the wall. You'd think it would be easy being on the facade of the uni.. but no.. 3 hours later and after having spent a long time staring at a totally different wall which didn't even have any carvings on it, we still hadnt found it. You'd think they'd put up signs.. ´The wall with the frog´ or something, eventually after asking loads of people we got there, turns out we had walked right by the street and been about 10 metres away from it not once but at least 10 times, anyway, I began to look for the frog but some annoying guy kept trying to point it out and therby ruin my chances of marriage, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep concentrating on the search when I had my fingers in my ears singing la lalalaa. In the end, I am ashamed to say, I gave up and looked in the guide book..
The frog didnt even look like a frog , it just looked like a bit of stone.. I was highly disappointed..

hmm I seem to have gone on a fair bit, and I need to get going so I will continue soon

in part 2 - S visits her crazy family in Andalucia and Bday stay at the Ritz... I bet you can't wait.. I can just see the excitement on all your faces!