Day XYZ

Do I still owe you something? No, actually not. But well, maybe I should mention the preliminary ending and the conclusions I drew. How did I get home? 36 h train ride, which is a high security event at least in Spain. Have luckily found a bike bag, had to take the bike apart for it. Standard, so I can take it simply as luggage on the train. Thus the bookings (went only from station to station) was very uncomplicated, no bike ticket. But was also ready to leave the Göppel (Allemanisch for rubbish bike) at the roadside. On the first day it went from Cartagena (very nice there) to Barcelona, from there, as it turned out to be best, in the evening right on to Figueres-Vilamalla. Otherwise I would have had to take a hotel for 8h stay for a very high price. With all my luggage on my shoulders was further than 500 m run not in it. So in the evening still further, and in Spain train travel is as mentioned a high security event with a security gate like at the airport. With my bulky luggage great. Why I didn't fly right away? From Malaga it would have been relatively cheap. Well not with the amount of luggage, plus the CO¬2 footprint. Arriving in Vilamalla, I had the plan to spend the night in the train station. In Spain they are not open overnight, so not only are the buildings closed (0 - 4:45), I was kicked off the premises. Luckily there was a luggage cart, but I had to bring it back to the premises over night. There I have now in a storm (without rain) my sleeping bag unpacked and between plastic garbage and cut grass at the edge of the station fence on a field spent the night. It was wonderful. The next morning it went on, with the TGV over Paris, there with the cab the stations changed and further to Mannheim. In the meantime I'm back home and chilling a bit. What also the one or other doctor suggested to me. That my foot is green and blue and bleeding, I'm used to, also pain / cramps are actually constant companion from a certain tour dimension (am also no longer the youngest), in itself no reason to break off the tour. Also the sore throat, which did not disappear, was not in itself the reason. Taken together, however, it was after careful consideration reason to return, even since almost a week of rest brought no improvement in the suffering. Actually, I almost arrived where I wanted to go. Portugal. Then I would have returned anyway to head north after a few weeks break. I came back 3 weeks earlier than planned. In the meantime I went to the doctors and lo and behold, a hairline fracture in the cuboid bone and a few stretched ligaments, as well as actually a full-blown lateral gangrene. I guess I'll have to take it easy for a few weeks. Or better: take it a bit easier. I also have a few projects here that I should finally finish. Since I have nothing planned I can do that and of course spend a lot of time with my best friend. My wife and I have been doing our own thing for the last 5 years, no mistake, but now I have time to spend with her again before I start something new. And not just a "commuted" weekend. Are there any more tours? Yes certainly, which extent I can not say at the moment and when also not. However I have learned again some things. Especially what made me dissatisfied this time. I wanted to be much more in nature, camping and so on. Sunsets and sunrises, birds chirping, the sound of the sea and so on. What did I do instead? Sat around in accommodations of any kind, have designed in the evening several hours an Internet presence (2 languages), not that it would not have been fun for me, only it has distracted me from the essential and otherwise from comfort I have stared in the evening in the tv/Internet, I can also at home. Something I will change in the future and also definitely no longer operate in this dimension, less Internet. Additionally I got an informal request for a (photo-)book about a trip, of course it would be stupid if it would be freely available in advance on the internet. On the other hand, I would then have to drive a certain predetermined route / region, that is also not the point, right? Unfortunately, I must also say that people have read along, on which I generally do not place increased value. Nor that these people even know what I do. In general, I was also not at all satisfied with the interaction, with very few exceptions, via social media. Most people came and featured themselves on my wall. Smart alexs, trying to be funny, only criticism let go or told exclusively about themselves. I am not interested in what museums you think I should visit. The purpose of my tours is other than to tell me your past tourism pleasure. Great I also found people who have addressed me on individual photos, then on the hint of the blog came the answer: "I have no time to read that, now say already quickly what / where is that!" or the "please" to present everything on video, because reading is so exhausting. Inwardly, something like that just pisses me off. Disgusting behavior, but sure, I'm sensitive. I don't think I need this anymore. In the meantime, I have completely lost interest in social media. The medium used to be different, completely different. Today, most people are just snotting around, can't distinguish between reality and fiction in front of the screen anyway. At the same time, they share their yesterday's, unthought-out opinions because they are too comfortable to change their well-worn lives, let alone reflect on them. And only the borderline world views that have become visible. Everything becomes an excitement, only to be forgotten the next day. Distraction from one's own boring life. I now have a homepage, why do I still need facebook? The latest studies show how the "liken" or the "likes" also only address the addiction center in the brain (reward). Who needs that? Looking for confirmation from others? Certainly not. Only for commercial purposes (and I got the attention in the meantime, see if I make something out of it). Was everything bad? Definitely not. That I am fit I know that I need another bike, now also that I need much less equipment than I have taken with me, now also (especially if I no longer live blog). Italy, there I was in regions that I would have never visited as 0815 tourist. Sicily, Salerno and Sardinia. Great. San Marino, Malta (finally saw Liana again, greetings to Uli! Thanks for everything) & Andorra finally visited (Gibraltar to follow). Spain is totally great, so far I had only prejudices, none of them were true. What a great country. I will certainly cycle here again, miles of lonely paths just to the horizon and the Via Verdes first. Italy I know pretty well now, you can go somewhere else. The people are also rather chillig and the drivers know what minimum distance is. I always wanted to build and maintain a homepage, it's not that hard. Others pay a lot of money for someone to implement a homepage for them, it's so easy. Regarding video, I have also made my first experiences, I like the medium. So in this sense......

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endlich wieder das Fahrrad für was vernünftiges verwenden