last time no train, this time no hostal...

In other parts of the world it is important to reserve a room when you are travelling before you get there. Here in Spain I have managed several times without reserving anything in advance. Case in point: my trip to Zaragoza.
The weekend after Madrid, Miren and I decided to visit Zaragoza...no where near as far away, normally about three hours...on the fateful night we went it took about 4 hours. We left around midnight on Friday night...I was completely exhausted and at any point I wasn't walking, I was sleeping, well at least trying to on the train. Miren and I only planned this trip earlier that day and had only bought the train tickets in advance. We tried to find somewhere to stay online but the circumstances (the mean librarian in Tarragona) was giving us mean looks and so we rushed out of the library without booking anything...i guess figuring we would work it out later or something like that.
Well, by the time midnight rolled around neither of us had done anything about it, but oh well...
It turned out that the train station was having construction done during the night so the train to Zaragoza couldn't actually go to Zaragoza at night, so we went to Casetas at 3 o'clock in the morning...and it was cold! There we waited for 20 minutes until a bus came...which thankfully took us to the train station in Zaragoza. Luckily there was a security guard there and he assured us that if we took a cab and asked the driver to take us to a hostal we would find one that was open. And low and behold 4 o'clock in the morning we stumble into a hostal where we got a room with two beds and a shower all to our selves! for only 30€ a night, what a deal! and at 4 in the morning i didn't really care what we got.
Zaragoza turned out to be quite fun and we did a lot of walking once I woke up (at 11 can you believe it??) because we didn't have a map of the city and we figured we could walk around and find the center and the old buildings...little did we know how big of a city Zaragoza was. After wandering around in what turned out to be the complete wrong direction for 45 minutes we broke down and asked where a tourist office was where we could get a map. After hopping on a bus and walking around some more we finally found it and all the ruins. The old buildings were gorgeous and mostly included a bunch of churches...we saw at least 3 weddings! it was rather ridiculous. Other hightlights of the trip included an impromptu jazz concert, touring the local castle, and learning how to write in caligraphy! See pictures here: http://drexel.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2039378&l=bce8f&id=10500847