5TH AUGUST
THIS was a day of high stress although it started out laid back. We caught a bus to madird but as we are fairly lazy travellers and don’t do a lot of thinking we could only get the bus at 1pm. Which meant we didn’t get into Madrid until about 8pm. This would have been fine if we had accommodation in Madird but we had a hotel booked in Toledo which is a 35 minute train ride away. We assumed because it was so there would be plenty of trains going there at night. Long story short- we wenrt to the wrong train station then raced to the right one only to miss the train by about 60 seconds. We asked if there were alternative ways to get there but the guy at information was useless. We called the hotel in Toledo (and this is where I got very excited- by this stage it was 10pm) and the lady didn’t speak any English at all. So I spoke to her (I was nervous because I doubted my Spanish ability a lot) but she understood everything I said and I understood her. Basically the only way to get there was by taxi which she thought would cost about 80 euro. She also told me the hotel reception closed at 11. I assumed we wouoldn’t make it and told her to cancel our booking. After this we did some quick cal we did thatucaltaions and realied we were going to lose 200 euro between the 4 of us and so we decided to race to a taxi and negotiate the taxi driver was more than happy for such a fare to come his way and told us he could get us there in an hour so we should call the hotel and say we might be ten minutes late (he also spoke no English). We were in the taxi and away and ready to cal the hotel when we realised one phone was dead and the other creditless. Long story short we got credit on the phone and called the woman again who said she would wait for us.
We arrived and she was there. She quickly gave us our keys and answered some questions. Its funny how when you are trying to speak another language quickly your mind goes for most circuitous route to get what you want. We needed food and instead of just asking if restaraunts were open (the word for restaurant in Spanish is essentially restararunt) I asked if they were shops with food. Such an idiot. Anyway we traipsed up to our rooms and Emily opened her door then quickly shut it again with a horrified look on her face. Apparently there was a naked couple asleep on the bed in the room. Hysterical with laughter we raced down to inform the lady who was clearly horrified that she gave us the wrong key and sorted it out.
We found a bar with food and we were happy.
THIS was a day of high stress although it started out laid back. We caught a bus to madird but as we are fairly lazy travellers and don’t do a lot of thinking we could only get the bus at 1pm. Which meant we didn’t get into Madrid until about 8pm. This would have been fine if we had accommodation in Madird but we had a hotel booked in Toledo which is a 35 minute train ride away. We assumed because it was so there would be plenty of trains going there at night. Long story short- we wenrt to the wrong train station then raced to the right one only to miss the train by about 60 seconds. We asked if there were alternative ways to get there but the guy at information was useless. We called the hotel in Toledo (and this is where I got very excited- by this stage it was 10pm) and the lady didn’t speak any English at all. So I spoke to her (I was nervous because I doubted my Spanish ability a lot) but she understood everything I said and I understood her. Basically the only way to get there was by taxi which she thought would cost about 80 euro. She also told me the hotel reception closed at 11. I assumed we wouoldn’t make it and told her to cancel our booking. After this we did some quick cal we did thatucaltaions and realied we were going to lose 200 euro between the 4 of us and so we decided to race to a taxi and negotiate the taxi driver was more than happy for such a fare to come his way and told us he could get us there in an hour so we should call the hotel and say we might be ten minutes late (he also spoke no English). We were in the taxi and away and ready to cal the hotel when we realised one phone was dead and the other creditless. Long story short we got credit on the phone and called the woman again who said she would wait for us.
We arrived and she was there. She quickly gave us our keys and answered some questions. Its funny how when you are trying to speak another language quickly your mind goes for most circuitous route to get what you want. We needed food and instead of just asking if restaraunts were open (the word for restaurant in Spanish is essentially restararunt) I asked if they were shops with food. Such an idiot. Anyway we traipsed up to our rooms and Emily opened her door then quickly shut it again with a horrified look on her face. Apparently there was a naked couple asleep on the bed in the room. Hysterical with laughter we raced down to inform the lady who was clearly horrified that she gave us the wrong key and sorted it out.
We found a bar with food and we were happy.
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