Frankfurt

Last night was the most comfortable, fullest and most necessary 11 hours of sleep I have gotten all summer. After battling sweat-inducing heat and loud Dutch girls for the past week, Matt, Paul and I slept like drunken babies in our quiet, cool hostel. This, of course, meant that we woke up at around noon and had to scramble to see what we wanted to see in Lisbon today. I woke up a little earlier than the other guys and packed up my stuff for my flight. We then headed out to see the excellent Lisbon Oceanarium. It's a big aquarium right on the waterfront that has a "One Ocean" theme - There is one massive central tank in the aquarium and then all of the other tanks, themed after all of the various ocean habitats around the world, are connected to it. If you ever visit Lisbon, I highly recommend taking a few hours and going to the Oceanarium. And then, do what we didn't have time to do and just walk around that waterfront area of Lisbon - it's the very modern, newest district of the city.
When we got back to Rossio, our hostel area, I went to get my bags while Paul and Matt found the right bus that would take me to the airport for cheap. I got to the airport around 5:30 and flew out at 7:30. Other than their lack of free wifi, the Lisbon airport is awesome and people there are really, really helpful. In both the Oceanarium and the airport, everything was written in both Portugese and English but not Spanish.
I got in to the Frankfurt Airport at 11:20 and then took a taxi (way too pricey) to my hostel. I wish I had more time in Frankfurt since the area I'm in seems really cool. The hostel itself is the complete opposite of our Madrid place. The third floor is the reception/common area and there are loads of people here, radio playing, a bar and now, live music in the form a guitarist playing "Come Together" and "Wonderwall".
I'm off to get some sleep. I'm going to take in as much of Frankfurt as I can tomorrow and then I'm heading back west to Dublin.

Check back soon!

-Simon