Market

February 22:

We woke up around 11:30 today, little worse for wear. The order of the day was to find a place to stay tomorrow night because the inconsistent hostel wireless had hindered our last attempt to sort things out. We looked into trains to Lisbon and found that there was only one option, an overnight train. We would need to go to the train station to sort out our tickets, but first, food. We headed out in search of nourishment in no particular direction and had soon stumbled upon a store selling 5 euro sunglasses. The lens had popped out of the ones I brought while we were still in Paris so I picked up a pair. Sunglasses were a necessity for this chilly but amazingly sunny day. It soon hit us quickly that instead of finding a random café we should head to a market. We went back to the hostel and found out about one close to us. We went and it was really neat with lots of interesting foods but they were all relatively pricey so we searched around it vowing to come back for a snack after our breakfast. We found a place that sold noodles and ate them up. A creamy mushroom sauce really hit the spot and eased my somewhat uneasy stomach. After our meal we went back to the market but nothing appealed to us and we decided to make our way to the train station. Once there we were able to reserve our tickets for the next evening in a matter of minutes and were soon on our way back to the hostel.

Almost there we grabbed some snacks from the corner store and settled into the room. I had been eyeing a hostel with 90+ rating on hostelworld which was billed as a party hostel with large beds, free pancake breakfast, free family style dinners and 5 Euro all you could drink beer before 11pm. It was also the cheapest hostel in its range where other well rated hostels were 12 or more euros a night this one only cost 9.99.  So we are now booked for a four night stay starting the 24^th at the hilariously named Gspot Hostel.

After booking the hostel we kept it low key chillin and planning to have a low key night after the excitement of the last one. For dinner we went to a place called Café and Tapas, which I think is a chain. Food was really good if a bit pricey. After dinner we chilled and fought the shoddy internet to load shows that we then watched and headed to bed.