Streets of Madrid

After my adventure of taking the Metro I finally get to the big city. For starters, I hate the metro, its confusing to me and I always end up lost. Where I am from we don't have subways, so all of this is new to me! Anyways, I step out of the Metro station and I look up and saw huge beautiful buildings. I had to stop which caused the people behind me to get aggrivated but damn it's a little breath taking. The architecture is crazy! It's like the movies! I couldnt tell you what part of the city I was in but I walked around all day. I saw Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palace (the garden thing was beautiful) and just a rack of different places those two are the ones that stick out in my head right now.

It had to be a million people walking around and because the streets were so tiny I thought the area was pedestrian only. Wrong. Cars be scootin through those streets with people everywhere, they act like they in a big rush. I almost go hit once because I was just chillin standing in the middle of the street and a car was coming I was looking at the driver like he was crazy. My friend yelled "Tish get out the street!" I'm like "Oh my fault I didn't know this was a real street". I thought the car was in the wrong. lol

There are restaraunts of all nationalities there. American, Irish, Cuban, Chinese, Japanese, Indian the list goes on! Whatever you are in the mood for you can find it in Madrid and you will love it! I chose to eat at KFC! I felt like I was home, except for the fact that you don't get biscuits with your meal :(, you get french fries. Other than that the chicken was ohh so good lol! There was also alot of fresh seafood and Tapia places. It was so crowded the day I went I couldn't try the Tapia place that my friend raved about.

On Sundays they have this huge street market. They sell any and everything...for the low low! It was sooo many people though and too many people make me aggrivated and nervous. I was trying my best to enjoy it but people kept bumping into me and if somebody would have stepped on my shoes it would have been a problem. "Do what you do but watch my shoes...you'll get blues if you dont watch my shoes!"

A downer to walking around was seeing all of the crazy and poor people begging for money. Because of that you have to hold your bags because of pick pocketers. I see homeless people back home but nothing like this. I mean a man dressed like peter pan playing this flute thing walked up on me an was holding his hand out. I'm like "Peter you better move!" I asked my friend do people normally walk up to you and she said no. I guess he looked at me like I was his pay day. Crazy lady worshiping the ground and crying it was a mess. I saw this man with no legs and he had an old dog and a puppy and he was having the puppy do tricks. I lost it by then, I started tearing up. Yes I'm a sensitive one but after seeing all of those poor people by the time i saw this man I couldn't take no more I just hate seeing people living like that. This one man had me cracking up though he had a sign talking bout I need money for wine. lol at least that man was honest.

There are many many stores, boutiques, shops its crazy. Only problem is that every day shoe store I went into their shoe sizes stopped at a size 45...well i wear a 48!! The cutest boots and casual shoes that I would looove to take back to the states but nooo big foot Tish is out of luck. The shop place is Puerta de Sol its like 3 miles of shops if I'm in the City you can most likely find me walking around there!

The city is cool. It's plenty of things to do (even for american's like me whose spanish is terrible), great places to eat, great shopping, extravigant (college word lol) sites, and a real diversed group of people.