Kristian and Frances

Dear Friends,

The moment I got onto the plane from Paris to Madrid, I knew Spain was going to be different. Firstly, the people are all beautiful here. While France has this mythology of being a place of beautiful and sophisticated people, I found it to be untrue. People dressed down and daudy in Paris, except for one or two.

In Spain, so far everyone dresses with style. The young people are confident, attractive and full of energy. The old people all seem quite the opposite! It seems there are no young and uglies here.

My experience of Madrid consisted of a air terminal, a faux up-market hotel and many miles of underground metro. I don´t know if it was just the part we were in or not, but the whole place seemed fresh and clean.

We´re in Cordoba now, after a high speed train ride from Madrid. Cordoba is wonderful, it is swamped with tourists, mainly Spanish, but tourists nonetheless. Despite this it is wonderful. The old town is like nothing I could imagine!

And everything is so cheap, unlike in Paris where we were over budget every day, in Cordoba we´ve balanced the budget in one day. 9 Euros purchased us a veritable feast for dinner, with wine and chocolate and breakfast for the next day.

Umm, have to cut this short!

Bye!