Happy new year blogotomy users. Hope you celebrated it well. I know I did.
On boxing day, the day after Christmas for any of you who don't know what it is. A girl phoned me saying that she broke up with her boyfriend and that they had booked a holiday to madrid for a couple of days and then were supposed to be going to her house in caberllino(sp?) to celebrate new year. Best of all he had already payed for it. Flights, hotel - everything - was already paid for. Apart from the fact that I didn't have a passport and we were too be leaving in two days I didn't see why I shouldn't go.
Ended up getting the fast track passport service which cost a little extra but turned out to be worth it.
The trip to Madrid was pretty good, the plain journey went pretty smooth and we got a taxi pretty easily - even though the fucking dick ripped us off about ten euros - We found our hotel and went to get booked in. Turned out her mum had booked the room for the wrong day of the wrong month, of the wrong year... So we waited while the receptionist guy checked if there was another room available and too our luck there was. When we found the room which at first we mistook for a utility closet we ditched our bags, took some money and then headed out to check out the local night life. Apparently it's awesome. I can't remember much of it other than getting attacked by a fat naked prostitute who stole a phone out of my pocket with one hand while having a pretty tight hold of my dick with her other - an extremely valuable talent in her profession I suppose.
We met a bunch of people who turned out to be pretty fun. Four Americans, two of whom had diplomatic immunity and one which was robbed by a skinny 17 year old who he then caught and "screamed like a bitch" until the police came "tips hat to douglas". A person from Peru who lived in Miami and his friend whos name I didn't bother to learn. Both good guys. One of the girls from America with the diplomatic immunity turned out to be pretty cool. We spent awhile talking and she wanted to keep in touch - I just remembered that I have no idea where I put her contact info though so hopefully she contacts me some time soon.
We partied with them for two nights and it went pretty fast. A broken heart, a missed oppertunity and a broken table later we missed our train for carbellino. We were chasing the train for awhile but eventually got to the end of the line and we needed to catch the next one which was 7 hours later. The only seats were first class which just happened to be on her parents as was everything else on the holiday for me, no idea how I got so lucky. So we spent the best part of 7 hours(6 hours and 25 minutes to be exact) sitting on the floor and metal seats amusing ourself with cards and jokes when we realised that the first class tickets we had entitled us entry into the first class VIP lounge... A room where we could be warm, entertained, comfy, fed drink and all for free. So we got a good 15 minutes in there before we needed to go catch the train. A bastard when you think about it but i'm glad it went the way it did because I enjoyed the time we spent just talking and laughing, rather than sleeping in silence in the VIP room.
After the 7 hour train journey where we had a pretty good tim...meh i'm tired and I need to get up early tomorrow. Over all it was a pretty good time and I can say it was a good end to 2007 and a good start to 2008. Hope you guys can say the same.