Travel Writing - Grab the bull by the horns

By Julie O. Jensen & Merete Krogsgaard

Title: Grab the bull by the horns.

We are on the one way train to Madrid and now going 60 miles per hour. We are just leaving Paris where we have seen all the great sights, in particular the Louvre and the Mona Lisa left a great impression. In Paris my friend and I met our summer lovers. We met on Downtown 4^th street in Paris and I was wearing my dash of sherry lipstick. He yelled stop, and when I saw him it was like the nail being hit by the hammer. His name was Dr. Oetker and he called me his beautiful swan and his friend Mr. Landlord had a good eye for my friend Julie. I am sure that Venus was in line that day, looking after us.

In the breakfast coupe this morning there were two girls, younger than us, and an elderly man. When we entered the coupe the conversation of the girls was striking: “I read this article ‘How to give your boyfriend a better blowjob’. And it said that you had to stick your finger up his ass”. We both looked at each other and at the poor man. We entered and sat down and behind us entered an elderly woman, who had direction towards the man. "How have you been my love? Have you missed me?" she said and he silently answered,”And so the peace is no more".

We would reach our destination in an hour so I continued to read my book. It was a book about Abraham Lincoln and it was truly exciting. It debated whether he was killed by a screwdriver or perhaps shot with a Smith & Wesson and Julie and I had many discussions about this debate.

An hour later the train passed a ‘no left turn sign’ and we were at the station. We went along a street which could be translated into ‘Sweet Potato Street’ and walked along the marked. We both felt somewhat like Alice in Wonderland with paintings of Blackbirds, fresh vegetables such as red onions and chives, and the small and narrow streets.

We moved in with a local family in the Nightingale district. On the morning of our second day in Madrid their smallest child who was no more than three years old looked at us and said in Spanish, “your boobs are big” we all laughed and enjoyed the child’s innocence. We rented bikes and drove around in the streets. We had trouble finding our bikes since we had parked them at parking 305 but the sign had been removed so we had to search far and wide for it. It was an interesting day.

We stayed in Madrid for a week and then our journey took us further on, where to we knew not but that is the beauty of our trip.

List of words:

“I read this article ‘How to give your boyfriend a better blowjob’. And it said that you had to stick your finger up his ass”

"How have you been my love? Have you missed me?” ”And so the peace is no more"

Blackbird

Swan

Nightingale

Dr. Oetker

Landlord

DOWNTOWN 4th street

ONE WAY

No left turn

Parking 305

Stop

60

Venus

Dash of Sherry

Morning

Alice in Wonderland

Mona Lisa

Abraham Lincoln

Red Onion

Chives

Sweet potato

Hammer

Screwdriver

Nail

Smith & Wesson

“Your boobs are big”