Day 8 - Madrid ... and the Spanish Keyboard

I got to Madrid train station about 30 minutes late (didn´t really care as it was a 13hour train trip to begin with). After Paris, one thing I learnt to mke your life so much easier in a new city, walk into a tourist office and pick up a local train map, and a tourist map of the city (this will normally have all the major landmarks on it and they are free).

So I got my map, and the lady at the information desk couldn´t help you enough - such a contrast from France where if you weren´t French, they didn´t really care too much. So a great first impression of Madrid. Got to the Hostel which is everything the reviews said it would be. Again the person at the counter couldn´t help you enough.

Thought I would quickly check email and now I ran into the Spanish keyboard problem. Basically it is the standard qwerty keyboard, only that all the punctuation keys are different when you press then. So I´m guessing a little at the punctuation keys. Funny how I´ve never really considered this problem before.