MADRID - REGENTE

Monday 26th March 2007
Madrid - Regente Hotel
Day 25

Uh oh! Greg woke up with a cold! We dragged ourselves out of bed (afterall, yesterday was a BIG day!) and had our buffet breakfast. We booked another night at the Regente so we didn´t have to bother with arranging accomodation. A reprieve for a day! And so Greg could sleep.

Isn´t it awful when you´re away and you get sick! Wa´n´t long ago, hey sis, that you and Graeme were in Europe with your dreaded colds! Same thing. I think i had a bit of a dose when we arrived and i just wanted to sleep, but i wasn´t sure if that was jet lag (after missing that whole night´s sleep from Joburg to Madrid) or if it was a cold. Greg says he caught it from me....so there you go. My fault! haha!

Anyway, we stayed in bed all day and i finished my book,´´A Wedding in December´ by Anita Shreve (about a group of school friends meeting for a reunion - reminded me of ours Jilly...by the way, thanks for the email!!) I loved just ´being´to tell you the truth, so i was glad Greg was sick and had to sleep! Watched a bit of CNN as well. Caught the bit about a cyclone up north and got worried about Sam at the Abrolhos but it didn´t come down that far.

Oh yeah. My foot was so sore it was good to rest!!! (OK CEd (Suzie!) I mentioned the ´bloody foot!´´) By the way, how are you guys going? I believe you´ve started the regional road safety weeks now! (How was Bunbury Bob?) I have to tell you about the South African roads (excellent roads - great sign posts, well set out!) in an email!!! (Don´t want to bore everyone talking about our passion - ROADS - now do we!)

Back to Madrid!

We spent the afternoon with Greg waking up...plotting...and me writing! We decided we´re soul mates because he likes to plot and i like to blog! :-) Nah, not only cos of that, we know we are, because, well, we just are! And we travel so well together too! Day 25 and no concerns at all. I think we could do this forever!

We ventured out in the evening in search of the Tourist Centre in the end to find a hotal for the next few days in Madrid. And we found one! Booked it as well. 42 Euro each night! (Just found the Euro key...i tell ya, spanish keyboards are murder!) € OK. Got it! €€€ (Thanks Greg!!) He´s sitting here looking at the keyboard!!! Anyway, to continue...it´s a good price. A third of the price of the Regente! That perked us up a bit!

Also found a place that´s like Myer. Can´t think of the name at the moment but it´ll come to me. El Cortez something or rather.....anwyay, we found some Beautiful Perfume! And bought it. El Cortes De Engleis. That´s it (thanks Greg!)

At the moment, we´re in the internet cafe on the corner of where our accomodation is. It´s such a gorgeous little..well, not so little, place. Restaurante Zahara Cafe. When you come in here..there´s a bar (where we´ve had beer, olives, peanuts) and there´s a place where you have meals (chicken sanwich) and you go upstairs and put coins in for the internet. €3 for 50 minutes! (which is why i´m going to start my next blog!)

Hey, thanks for all your emails...Deidre, Jilly, Helena, Marguerite (bub is GORGEOUS!)..! I just love hearing from you! And of course from all my family. You´re great. What would we do without you! Aiden. The pics of down south were gorgeous! Anyway, thanks to you all. We love coming to the internet and seeing your emails. And thanks for all the info Jaak.

And Silvia...how wonderful to hear from you!!! When we get to Italy, you´ll have to tell us where to go!!! :-) Hey..i reckon you´d do so well with your jewellery here!!!

Okies, next blog xxx