An Evening in Madrid

As we entered Madrid, the one thing that struck me was the amount of traffic in the city. Roads are massive here, a number of four lane motorways leading to the capital city. Once we managed to get off the highway and into the streets of the city centre, there were loads of cars everywhere. We were booked in a hostel very close to Gran via, which is the main central lane of Madrid. Finding our hostel and a place to park were both a nightmare. As we maneuvered our car in the wee streets trying to find a spot, we encountered a hilarious incident. A woman on a huge BMW trying to squeeze her car into a small place, in which even our Golf had problems squeezing into. Her car had scratches everywhere, evident from the way she was trying to park the car. Matchbox parking is not for everyone, and she was bumping again and again into the Mini cooper parked behind. There was some scaffolding in front and the only thing that she was successful in doing was constantly bump both the front and the back of her car. It was a one way small lane, and we were right behind her and there were like a long queue behind us. We were in no hurry to miss this life time oppurtunity of a woman trying out her parking skills. The cars behind were honking like crazy and we were holding our stomachs. I dont mean to be sexist, but women can be great on the road sometimes.

Later in the evening after settling down at our hostel, we headed to get some food in our belly and met a Bangladeshi bloke making Kebap's in Numret, a Turkish food chain in Madrid. He made some nice middle eastern tea for us, a special one served in small glasses. Appetite satisfied, we headed to get some cane juice inside us and entered a rustic looking bar. Some guys were leaving a table and as we headed towards it, a guy smiled and blew a kiss at me. Not sure at first, it occured to me that he was either being nice (in a strange way) or was gay. Soon we were sitting next a bunch of nice looking people but acting in a weird way. There were two girls in the group that started kissing and feeling each other up. They were ofcourse lesbians. Never mind, there can always be different people in a crowd. Then there came three guys who sat in front of me. Two of them were holding hands and started kissing. This was the first time i was seeing two guys kiss. Soon looking at the rest of the crowd we realized that we were the different ones in the crowd. We got chatty with this group of comprising of the two girls and were talking about the night life around in the area. We only heard of gay clubs around, they had no idea about straight ones. Then I realized that they were under the impression that we were a couple. LOLZ. (Yes.. AB... I wanto see ur expression now). They invited us to join them for the evening to a club called 'Heaven' Before things got out of hand, we put our coats on and headed out. A bloke there gave us a couple of passes to a night club near by and we decided to try it. On entering the bartender seemed to move in a different way. There were girls dancing in one group and guys in another. We had ended up in the wrong place again. This was enough and our idea of a few peaceful beers before hitting the bed vanished. Stepping out as quickly as we had entered, we decided it best to head to the security of our hostel.