Barcelona, Spain

What we did: • Waited around terminals • Flew. All darned night. What I learned: • If you forget your PSP, your Nintendo DS, or your netbook, at home, ... More

What we did: • Waited around terminals • Flew. All darned night. What I learned: • If you forget your PSP, your Nintendo DS, or your netbook, at home, you can buy one from one of JFK’s enormous vending machines There were a bunch of these, standing about four feet tall, and ten feet wide. And if you put in your credit card (or, like, $200.00 in quarters,), a PSP doesn’t dispense four feet down and bash out of the swinging door. Rather, a series of mortorized rails glide your new doodad to you. That would have been neat to see that happen. • Every shop at our terminal had a security guard That’... Show Less

December 8, 2005: We arrive in Madrid (at the Chamartin station) right around 0830...on a Thursday...which also happens to be a major holiday (a fact ... More

December 8, 2005: We arrive in Madrid (at the Chamartin station) right around 0830...on a Thursday...which also happens to be a major holiday (a fact we will not completely figure out for about a day. Thanks for the help Lonely Planet. You too, Fodor’s. We didn’t REALLY wanna know about Constitution Day). The Metro isn’t running this morning so we’re forced to hop in a cab and set off for (what we believe to be...) our hostal – which I reserved online yesterday morning through Hostels.com. The hostal is in a great location – just a few blocks away from Puerte del Sol and right on top of a Metr... Show Less