Today was my departure back to the Netherlands. I packed my bag in the morning, the rest of the day consisted of wandering around town and go for some shopping. We started at the Primark, at Gran Vía, which was enormous. We were a little worried that we weren't going to be able to get it all back to NL, due to the weight restriction for the flight. After some serious shopping we went for lunch at Dunkin Coffee, which was not that much of a success. We had some coffee at Starbucks afterwards, which is odd but we didn't realize it back then to get one at that coffee shop. To find the Starbucks was quite a challenge, we had seen a lot of them on the Gran Vía itself, unfortunately we didn't remember where they were exactly. We ended up by walking way to far to a small Starbucks coffee shop. Surprisingly there are a lot of Dutch people in Madrid. We manage to get an eye on them due to the way they dress and act. Extraordinary to see that people from other countries do differ. Shopping had a longer duration than expected and our legs were extremely tired. Around 4 we had to head back to the hostel to get on our bus, which was 45 minutes late. During that spare time we went to another souvenir shop because on of my friends still needed a bracelet. It was some true last-minute shopping. When the bus was finally there we hopped on and went to the airport. Check-in didn't go as fluent as we hoped for but we got on, which is what counts. We had a quick dinner at the Burger King, who serve 0,75 L Iced Tea with a burger menu. Trust me.. it was a lot. The cashier was notably happy for a 44 mans order, we slightly expected her to be grumpy because of the 44 Burger menus that had to be made. The flight itself felt really short because we had a lot of fun, we played games and discussed the past few days. The farewell was unfortunate, I would have liked to have just some more time with all the students. The four days felt like only one, getting of the plane and heading back home was a bit somber. To see my parents and my dog on the other hand was a relief and softened the goodbye. ¡Adios Madrid!
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