well, that sucked...

We got back home from Madrid very late last night. It was probably the suckiest last day of a trip anyone could possibly have...

Madrid Barajas International Airport has taken the honor of acheiving first place on my least favorite airports list. What a dump of an airport. No sense order whatsoever, and you had to struggle to find anyone who could speak at least two complete sentences of decent English. This is an international airport with heavy traffic, mind you, not some small town in the middle of nowhere, where the inhabitants have never gone further than 5 km from their own homes. They're doing a lot of fixing-up there, and OK, fine. But they couldn't even manage to keep at least one proper restaurant/café open (and we (at least I) hadn't had a proper meal since breakfast). At least when Oslo Airport was being reconstructed, they managed to keep a café up and running. And we eventually did find some cafés at another terminal (nobody pointed us out to those when we asked if there was anyplace where we could get food). The food was substandard though. Quite shocking when you're in a country that likes to pride itself on its cuisine...

The only positive thing about the place was the nice lady at the tax-free gourmet food shop where I bought some chorizo and manchego cheese. She fed me with samples of chorizo and ham and cheese and even gave me a free chocolate bar because I bought so much stuff there :-)

Getting back to Oslo wasn't that much better... there were lots of flights that came in at the same time as ours... too many people, too little space, we were the only ones going through the red zone as usual - there was a nice bottleneck at the green zone hahaha, random checks and all. But for the first time since I can remember, we were actually within quota. We were sure we were over...

Anyway, and then the train ride into town... a train overstuffed with people and luggage. We got on at the last few seconds, and people inside were just standing there like a bunch of retards, not moving when the train staff was yelling at them to make way for the last passengers. And my being hit in the back and nearly twisting my ankle from being shoved by the stupid bitch as she was trying to stuff me into the train because of the idiots who were too dumbstruck to move. Sheesh...

Oh, the trip was nice, but very exhausting (mostly because of the extreme heat)... I could use some more sleep but I have to be at work... blah... proper trip report will come eventually...