Madrid - May 8-15
It is great having Beck to myself again and I come out of my stupor. Beck says she knew I would and is concerned about how Ill be when we get home and are surrounded by people again, will I revert. We have a good flight to Madrid, reconnecting. We catch the metro to our hostal (Spanish for guesthouse), where the manager is "inconvenbienced" by our late arrival. As soon as I put my head on the pillow I begin to feel bites. We change the sheets and pillowcases and use our sleeping bags instead of the supplied linen and agree to find somewhere else the next morning. I head out early the next day, have a look at a few hostals, and after we walk around the city centre, gazing at the magnificent architecture, we return, check out and move to a nicer place. This of course doesnt stop the dozen bites on my forehead and arms from coming out. We go to a chemist to get something for the bites where the woman states in a voice loud enough for the whole shop to hear "Herpes". We assure her thats not possible but she wont budge and gets some antihistamene and cortizone. We leave without it, go to another chemist where we are told they will heal by themselves in a few days.
We spend our time at the fabulous Prado art gallery, walking the streets and at 2 hospitals to try and find why Beck is feeling so exhausted. At the first, they do blood tests, dont find anything and refer us to a hospital that specialises in tropical diseases because of where we have been travelling. We spend the whole next day there and find that all Beck needs is some rest. We agree that we will do a couple of day trips over the next few days and that I will go to explore the south of Spain while Beck goes to Barcelona and has a week resting at her cousins Jan and Jamie and we will meet up again there.
We visit the towns of Cuenca, known for its marzipan of which we try a variety, and Toledo, known for its gothic cathedral and monastery. On the 15th, we catch the metro to the bus station I will go to Seville from, sit together a few hours until I have to go, both glad to be off doing our own thing and excited about meeting up again in Barcelona.
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