Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Things I have noticed

When driving they have tunnels that go under roundabouts this keeps the traffic moving.
There are very few motorcycles here they are all scooters. And they can park any were on the curd.
Every thing is inside a building, even the gas station is under a building. The car dealership are inside. people will stop to talk on the street.
There are a lot of "Spanish " torest around.
There are cool looking black and white birds but they never stop moving to get a good picture.
The weirdest thing so far is there "lunch time" is any were from 12 to 5. So between that time they will close down the shop. There has been many times we wished to get something and had to wait and come back later.
There are no screens on the windows
Every one smokes
They are very energy efficient
We saw a wild parrot, just this little green guy
Even when u turn every thing off the hair dryer still trips the fuse.
The streets here do not line up, they turn and weave in all directions.  There are also many walking streets that are not on maps.
Even the locals cary there bags in front and set them on there laps.
They eat at such weird hr. Most restaurants do not even open till 8pm. I have been snacking hard core.
The tv is odd in the fact that you are watching a show and mid sentence a commercial will come on.
Since tv here is in Spanish we found one chanel that can be switched to English. all that is on
is grays anatomy and some time desperate house wives. I think we are getting addicted to Grays.
The emergency cars all drive around with there lights on. Not flashing but just on. So a cop car all ways has blue lights on top and when they are responding they flash blue and white with sound.
Along with ambulance they have medical scooters. My best thoughts is that they are mentioned to get there first and to stabalize or get all the facts so that they can go right to the hospital.
There are soooo many round abouts and they all have something in the center weather it be a statue or fountain, or plants.

Well our time in Madrid has come to an end. We fly to Portugal tomorrow morning. Excited to start our surfing adventure.

We love to trip brakers. So far in both places we have triped the braker. Then we went to a restaurant and the braker kept triping. We arejust that electrifying.
People like to go in the ocean with there clothing on. We were eating breakfast one morning and there was this woman on the beach and she was trying to wash something off and she would move when a wave came but she was already anckle deep with shoes still on. Now I know we should not laught but it was so funny. She went to clean it again and she bent over and fell right over. She looked drunk... It was the middle of the week...
Word gets around in a small town we asked Mario were to go for dinner he pointed out a restaurant he said his friend owned itand it was good. So we went there and the guy comes over and goes you know Mario we say yes he goes he told me you were coming, then he showed us the dishes that Mario had suggested.

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