The Europe Experience

We arrived in the morning at some weird station. Along the way, police boarded the train to check our passport with their guard dogs. Even after we alighted, there were police at the platform to check our passport again. We were quite surprise by the security level in Spain, maybe perhaps of the madrid train bombing some few years back?

Anyway, we had to change train to Madrid and once again we had the scare of our life when the train conductor checked our eurail pass very thorougly, they even use eraser to test the validity of our pass. The train station in Spain works very differently from that of with Germany and France.

For Germany, there were no checks at the platforms or anywhere in the station. So anybody can board the train, and train conductor will check your tickets on the train

For France, there are train conductors at the front of the platform to check the passengers tickets. Thus, there’ll be no checks on the train itself.

For Spain, its alot more tighter. A very similar system like the airport, all the bags are screened and to get to the platform, they must check your passport, tickets and stuff. Anyway, the train in Spain is the most high tech, fastest moving train (up to 300km/h). There are service crew on the train that behave like air stewardess, giving out free earphone, greeting u when u board and alight the train. Pretty impressive.

Anyway, we finally arrived at madrid in the afternoon. Took the metro and finally found our hostel. A very centrally located hostel with free breakfast, wifi and usage of pantry!! woo. we booked a 6bed mixed dorm but there isn’t a 6th person during our stay. We settled down, showered and headed out for dinner! we were very excited to find KFC in madrid with snack box selling at 2.5euros! MACs were more incredible,  1 euros for 4piece nuggets, chicken burger, ice cream and blah blah. Yes, we ended up eating this 2 fast food most of the time in spain. & we decided to catch angels and demon there! cost 7.8euros!

angels & demon

inside the cinema

The movie experience was quite cui compared to Singapore. The seats were small, the sound system wasn’t as good. I guess because watching movie is the only form of entertainment in Singapore, it has to be one of the best experience in the World. haha