Addendum to Day One - Our room at the Hostal Santa Isabel

I forgot to describe our room at the Hostal Santa Isabel.  Calle Santa Isabel is a little side street in a working-class neighborhood of Madrid.  The hostal is located on the 4th floor of an old building.  Most of the rooms in our part of the building are apartments.  There is a traditional elevator/lift with the cage and wooden/glass doors to the cabin and a white marble staircase that winds around the elevator shaft.  We're on the 4th floor so that means that we have five flights of stairs to climb.  They don't count the first floor in Spain.

Our room is tiny!  Not that we planned to spend a lot of time in the room, but with three of us fighting for floor space, it is tight.  Not to get too graphic, but while seated on the toilet, I can easily touch both walls with one elbow and one hand.  Within that width, there is a toilet, sink, and shower.  I've seen bigger bathrooms on airplanes... 

The room has a double bed, two night stands, plastic chair, corner closet, small wall-mounted t.v. (never figured out how to turn it on) and french doors to a small balcony.

The hallway has motion-sensors on the lights so they click on and off as you walk down the short hall.  We decided we need this in the breezeway at home.