EVS in Santiago de Compostela

On sunday I was running a marathon! Well, it's not exactly a marathon, it more like a quarter-marathon.... The name of the event is Carreira Pedestre. It is a 12km race trough the city of Santiago de Compostela. It's open for everybody to compete, profesionals and amateurs (such as me). This was a 35th time this race has been held, and the record was broken with 6.388 competitors.

So, the other day i was walking to the big shopping center behind the train station. I needed to go there to apply for Carreira Pedestre Popular de Santiago. So I spend more then one hour walking (with no rain what so ever) to the shoping center and back. It is cloudy but really hot, so i carry my jacket in my hand. Sol sends me sms to buy water on the way back, but i decide to first stop by the flat to leave the heavy jacket and unnecessary umbrella. As I head for the store, I feel some drops but it's nothing so I continue. I finish shopping and as I leave the store, I see the rain of biblical proportions. It rains so hard, that there are rivers formed in the streets. So I stand on the door of the store, with no umbrella and no jacket and I waited for the rain to stop for close to half an hour. The point is: always expect rain in Santiago...

For the weekend we went to Madrid. When we landed, we went to metro and bought a ticket for two days. It turned out that the ticket only works untill midnight, not 48 hours like we expected. For example, if you buy a ticket for one day at 23.55. it will be valid for 5 minutes, but you would still pay the full price. Cl ub bing in Madrid can be quite expensive. Beer can be 9€, and cocktails are over 11-12€. But fortunately, we were introduced to the noble job called ˝Street boy˝. Street boy is a person who sells drinks on the street. So you can go out of the club with an excuse that you need a smoke, get stamped, and drink a beer outside for 1€ insted of the one inside for 9€. This is good if you like beer, if you want a Cuba libre, you might be disapointed. And this doesn't work on rainy days.