Facebook Interaction with Backpackers

I know this post is just interrupting with the time line of my Backpacking experience but there is something very interesting that can be of Interest for all the Backpackers that are reading this BACKPACKERS DIARY. If you are part of the Social networking revolution specially talking about Facebook there is a new Facebook Application for Backpackers, and there is a very interesting Review of it in this Facebook Blog,

Check it out, and tell me what do you think. :-)

We woke up to Visit Madrid during day light!!

So after the long night, and early morning we decided to go for a walk in Madrid and visit some of the museums we were said that were interesting to visit.

First we walked through the "La Gran Via" where we checked all the amazing constructions at the sides of the roads, having a first insight of what was waiting for us during all our Backpacking around Europe.
Even now that I read my Backpacker Diary from Europe and I compared it to my Backpack Diary wrote on my Backpacking around Bolivia (South America), I can understand that the world is divided in several different worlds one totally different to the other, and there is beauty all around no matter where you go.

Then after La Gran Via we went to the Reina Sofia Museum, where we spend some hours looking art (that yet I do not understand), and that was pretty much all for the first day.

Alarms and Backpackers don't get along

Turn that off!!!! we are going to wake up all the people in the HOSTEL!!!

3:47 morninf time, I was sleeping like a baby, maybe even better after the whole crusaide with our backpacks and no place to go, while the alarm, yes the alarm starts to ring like crazy!!!. I jump from my bed, stepping on my backpack willing to defend all my belongings against the thread that activate the alarm.
I turn my head to my right just to see my cousin also ready to act, full throttle for our heart beats... I switch on the light!!!
WAAAAAAAAA

Nothing there, but the alarm was still shouting like crazy, everything was there our backpacks, our cloths, even my backpacker's diary... so what happened????, but please before we keep on looking arounf turn that annoying thing before we wake up all the people sleeping in this hostel.

My cousin and I, confused and annoyed, sit in our beds, give a fast check to our backpacks, nothing happened, false alarm (noisy one) but still our hearts and adrenaline are up high....

We look one to the other, and agreed. We rather get stolen than die of a heart attack, that thing really scared us both... more than necessary!! - the alarm looked similar to this one in the pic

So, no alarm for this backpackers, we better go to sleep. We have a whole new continent to discover starting from Spain..
Good night!, and sweet dreams with no alarms tied to our backpacks, this time if you want to steel us please don't scare us, just take the backpacks, and leave this new backpackers keep on sleeping.!!

Hello Backpackers!! Welcome to my guest House

Backpackers, Finding their first Hostel!!

So we get in, we walk around some bricks and buckets full of fresh paint.... there is an elevator, we called, but apparently it doesn't work so we start going up through the stairs!!, three floors up with our huge BACKPACKS, that after a 14 hours plane, plus another 5 hours of research and walks around all MADRID, where the longest stairs in my life.

Hello, little boys, she said.. I am Sacha (in clear spanish but with strong russian accent), what can I do for you??...

We are looking for a place where to stay, that was obvious, to her reply that she only had two bedrooms left, both of them with showers, but only one.... with TOILET,,,, hahah Yes that's right we had a place where to take a shower but no place at all to do number one or two!!!. ( As you can see on this picture that didn't stop me to follow nature's call)!!

Anyway we had no option, how much is it??? O F$&^%k a rip off, but you know that when it's late, in a huge city like Madrid, you are just starting to feel what it is to be a backpacker, and no other option is thinkable, the price is reasonable!!!.

We split in two, me and my cousin David together in the non toilet bedroom, Diego and Ary in the luxurious other room.

Big backpacks are open, way too much for the time we would stay there, but in a way it was the feeling of arriving somewhere... excited? YES!! Our backpacker's adventure was starting succesfully!!