On the way to Madrid,

Barcelona I liked so much, I`ll stay there again a few days, on the way back. To get to Lisbon is now rather very complex so spontaneously with Interrail and the little time I have. 2 days in Badajoz to spend I just do not get over me, so spontaneously reschedule. And as always, I leave on my trips something left, one has already a reason to come back. The motivation secret "stay hungry". So Lisbon but with the bike, are also only 2000 or 3000 km,and I was looking for a different destination than Italy. There I already know too much, slowly. But Interrail is now not exactly what for spontaneous people, at least if you want through France with the express train. Since one should reserve at least 6 days in advance, if it permits the contingent, better is earlier. Spontaneously, I still wanted to go from Barcelona to Milan, which was rather not at all possible, at least not via Interrailticket (in this short time periode). Buy a ticket, yes I could have additionally, but at a price that I did not want to pay. So then on the way back a few days extra in Barcelona, instead of Milan and Innsbruck, there are worse, right? When I do things, like Interrail, for the first time, there is also always a steep learning curve. Could also read the fine print, but, oh life is too short for that and my eyes are too bad by now. "Lehrgeldzahlen" that is called in German, the second time it will certainly be better. Was with the bicycle travel quite similar and meanwhile I have the whole thing also quite well under control. "There is nothing good unless you do it" says the experimental chemist. Interrail itself I find quite pleasant, even in Spain, although you can not reserve the trains on the Internet. Train travel here is quite relaxed, although a bit of a high-security event, a bit like at the airport. The country is actually huge, for the 650 km to Madrid was then also times only 3h. And then I spent another 2 h at the train station, the rest of the trip reserve. From stand to stand, from queue to queue, got equal times an impression of the capital. And as always, they are all more important in the capital, have less time, arrogant and are in the end just as powerless as everywhere else in the country (This effect is actually in every country). Also how to buy and drive here Metro, I learned again on the fast at the machine, with badly translated German. It works again quite similar to everywhere else in the world, but with certain differences. Then in the Metro, near the next departure station, still a hotel booked. Very cheap 5 star hotel with gym also near the terminus of the metro in which I was just sitting. I thought. Madrid is huge, so the dimensions were in reality a bit larger than I have from the impression on the map. So now I have a room uh suite in an ultra-luxury reservoir with completely integrated shopping mall and gym for 45 bucks the night (without breakfast, plus 20 euros), but 15 minutes walk from the nearest metro stop. So it is just. Then yesterday I was still a bit in Madrid on the road, explore the city. Well, it's huge, that takes a bit until I have walked it down to the bottem, but I go today, so right now. I'm hungry too, in this sense, have a nice day.