Plans

So here are my plans for the post-Sean part of my trip, the Rough and Tough travel experience a la carte. I´ll spend three days getting my gumption in Madrid, then head to Lisbon for some nights. I was considering going to the running of the bulls in Pamplona but I´m leaning towards forgetting it because it´s going to be stupid packed in that tiny Navarre town. I mean, sure, it´s going on while I´m here, but I don´t want to sleep in the fields of Pamplona while I´m at the Fiesta. Instead, I´ll head down south to Morrocco, Marrakesh and Casablanca. I know, I thought I was only going to be on one continent too. Well, Maroc is cheap and it´s not far south of Spain at all. It´s only a two and half hour ferry ride from Algercias(or some town called something similar) to Interzone, and it´s under thirty euros. I´m thinking of flying to Marrakesh on a budget flight and railing my way up the coast though. Then I´ll ferry across and spend some time in Granada, see the Alhambra, then head to Seville for a few days. I might stop by Toledo, but most likely, I´ll catch a flight from Madrid to some place where I can take a flight to Vilnius, Lithuania. This is where my plans are kind of sketchy, however. Cheap flights can be had from Germany to Vilnius, but getting from Madrid to the German airports for cheap might be a problem. I do want to see Vilnius though, for family reasons(it´s the most significant ethnic background I have) and just because I´m interested in the town. They have a breakaway republic in Vilnius called Uzupic that has it´s own constitution. One of the articles of the constitution is that everybody has a right to love, pet, and take care of ´the cat´. It´s not said what cat they are talking about, but it is clearly a cat of LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS. This cat has power to sway the law! This is clearly the town I was destined to drink coffee in. I´ll get to Lithuania somehow, and not by train because like hell I´m passing through Belarus with a transit visa. Even if somehow I don´t end up in Lithuania, I´ll bide my time somehow, maybe cycling through Spain or actually visiting Italy. I´m forgoing the Italian adventures in this trip even though I had planned to spend a significant amount of time in the country before. I have many thoughts on this matter, most of which have only been thought of while I´ve been traveling and are UNDENIABLY based on the EXCELLENT travel skills I have learned in my first five weeks in Europe. Based on the experience points I gained in Europe (I´m seriously at level 60 right now and still quickly rising) I have a very good explanation of why Italy isn´t where I want to go on this trip, but I´ll save it for a more focused blog. So after Vilnius I´ll probably travel to either Slovenia or Prague, depending on what I´m in the mood for, then possibly visit my friend Eric in Berlin, but that hasn´t been completely sorted out yet. After all that, I´ll catch a cheap flight to London or book it on a train and arrive just in time to sleep in the airport for a night before getting on my flight back home. Sounds good to me for a sketch!