Loooooong few days

Well today I am in Sevilla. Yesterday I was in Madrid. And before that I was in Alicante for a few days. Stayed with Amy (who I met in Barcelona Sants) and her roommates, all from Mizzou. Great people, showed me the sites, went to the beach, drank and carried on. It was a good time altogether. Not much to see there except the castle. Its actually pretty cool to have mountains and beaches in the same place. I climbed up to probably 3/4 of the way to the top of the castle, pretty cool, apparently left over from the moors and then converted. Caught a train to Madrid but then it started to hail (yeh weird) and storm really bad, the train had to stop because the rail lines were swamped ahead. So I had to stay on a train all nite...ce la vie. On the plus side, I got free food and drink, which in my book made it worth the trouble. Got to Madrid and it was cold and rainy and I was pissed at the weather and had like no sleep. I napped in the train station til around 10am and then went to prado and reina sofia museums. From what i could tell those are the highlights of the city, plus i wanted to get out cuz of the crap weather. Saw some great artwork, guernica, las meninas, the triumph of death, lots of dali, miro, picasso, el greco, etc etc. I liked reina sofia alot better than prado. I mean come on, how many pictures of the crucifixtion and the virgin mary can you take! Reina sofia is all modern art, with many different media used, so it was more my style. Well took the 8pm train madrid a sevilla. Got here and wandered around, lost like. My map didnt have where the train station was so i was like wtf. Finally made into the old town and was like man i need some beer, so i got some and felt alot better. Found the pension recommended by my travel book and the guy was real nice, even at 1230 at nite. Got my own room for 20 euro and passssssed out. First nite i paid for a bed mind you, not too bad. I might have rode out my couchsurfing, its really hard because i need internet to ask and i need internet to find out if they say yes later on.. This morning (luckily checkout was noon so i got to sleep in some.....but seriously wtf there were like cannons, yes they sounded like cannons, going off in the morning) It was so weird, but i was like all well, what can you do. Went to the Catedral de Sevilla, guinness world record for largest area in the world for a catedral. I guess its the third biggest but has the largest area. Saw christopher columbus´ tomb and a big picture of saint christopher right behind him. Pretty cool. Met some UF students in the tower, lets just say I could tell they were from UF. Then went to the alcazar, i think they said the oldest palace still in use by royalty. THe gardens were really beautiful.. Now probably going to catch the train to granada since my eurrail is still valid from last nite (travel after 7PM counts as the next day). Alrighty well thats all for now.