Our last night in Madrid we decided to go to a seven story discotec which is basically a huge dance club, and of course it being seven stories, it is one of the biggest discotecs in Europe. It was Huge to say the least, and that night has become the start of the redicilous stories that have led me to my home of San Sebastian. The first story starts with a man named Alfred.
So as I have said before, Spaniards do not start their night until very late, the discotec did not even open until one o clock, and us being Americans walked across Madrid to get there and arrived there at midnight. With some time to kill we found a small bar/cafe that we could hang out in and kill some time. As we were there we were ordering drinks and again, not being able to speak spanish, Laura and I were being ignored at first, so this older man stepped up and ordered for us. We were so amazed and super thankful. So we sat there for a while enjoying our drinks and realized that the man was going in out from behind the counter. We put two and two together and realized that he was the owner of the bar. With the little spanish that we knew we asked what his name was and began conversing with him a little, and this man is was Alfred.
Alfred was a super friendly guy who has never been to California and really enjoyed talking to us. He bought us free chupitos and even had a few cocktails with us as well. He seemed really grateful that we had come in an talked to him and invited us back to his place of business the next morning for coffee. We were sad to tell him that we could not make because we were leaving to San Sebastian but he told us whenever we visit Madrid again we must go see him. He was a real hoot to talk to! Alfred even kept his bar open longer until we left haha, it was such an honor in a sense. We said our goodbyes and did the whole double cheek kiss thing (which you do EVERYWHERE here) and went off to the discotec. It is on our to do list to go have coffee with Alfred! He was awesome.
And this leads us to the discotec.... the thing was HUGE!!!! Seven stories of different dance floors, bars, and lounges. It was was covered in techno lights with music blasting and people all around and our entire group danced the night away. We were using quite a lot of spanish here and it was really easy to get into the flow of speaking it which was nice. Something that I thought was funny about the club was that when Laura and I used the bathroom, we made two friends named Sarah and Christina. They lived in Madrid and wanted to practice their English and we wanted to practice our spanish so we were in the bathroom for a good half hour just talking to them. It reminded me of Chico where you always make friends with the girls you meet in the bathrooms at parties. It must be like a worldly accepted social norm. I was greatly intriuged by this. They were very sweet and friendly and also asked when we would be visiting Madrid again so we could meet up with them. Its nice to know that we have so many friends to connect up with in one of the biggest cities in all of Spain now! 4 million people live there! WOW!
It was a great way to end the Madrid tour and put us all in a more excited mood to leave for San Sebastian the next morning. We have four months of fun and insanity and experiences here in Spain and I know that each of them are going to be very very special!
Much Love,
The Koose
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