As I write this, I have 9 days left of my Erasmus adventure. I’ve finished at Universidad Europea (very happy about this) and since then I’ve been enjoying the start of Spanish Summer, honestly not doing much more than just sunbathing and soaking up the last that Madrid has to offer.
Now this isn’t going to be an emotional post about how I can’t believe the year is coming to an end, or how I never want to leave Madrid, because in reality I think I’ve slowly begun to come to terms with the fact that I’ll be leaving in little over a week. The saddest thing is not knowing when I’ll be returning, but I have so much planned in England to look forward to that it’s kind of just like moving from one great thing to another
Looking back at my bucket list, I remember sitting in our hostel room and starting this blog, never expecting to be able to tick as many things off the list as I have. Infact, I pretty much completed my Madrid Bucket List and was even able to cross one or two things off my general one. The only points left over were:
- To visit the underground spa. I would’ve loved to do this, but we just never seemed to get round to it. However, since visiting Budapest this completely made up for it! Why visit one spa in Spain when you can visit multiple thermal baths in Hungary?
- Go to a Madrid football match. Although this would’ve been a great experience, I was never willing to pay the €50 ticket price for any matches that happened to come up. I’ve also been in and around Sol on really busy occasions such as St Patricks and Pride, as well as experiencing the occasional protests - so I’ve definitely experienced an amazing atmosphere in the city centre (whether or not it was football related).
Since my last post, I’ve also visited Valencia and Budapest. Valencia was a fun weekend and I loved being out of a landlocked city and able to visit the beach, but Madrid has a lot more to offer and whilst it was nice to go, I’m not sure I’ll be revisiting any time soon. Budapest on the other hand was THE BEST. I’d highly reccommend a trip here and I can’t wait to return. It’s such a lovely city (made better by our great hostel experience @wombats) and it was definitely my favourite trip of Erasmus.
Returning to England is going to be tiring, emotional, sad, exciting and probably a little bit crazy. I’ll be travelling on an early flight, after being at MadCool festival all day till about 4am.... so god knows what state I’ll be in (probably exhausted and losing the plot from too much sun, sangria and music). But hey, finishing Erasmus the way we started! (DCODE Festival in August is still one of my favourite days.)
And then? Well it’s onwards and upwards, with a festival in July and a holiday to Crete planned in September before heading back to Coventry to finish my degree. I’ve been so lucky this year with being able to actually live here as well as being able to travel to so many new places.
