Night train to Madrid

My first route through Spain was only going to the major cities. In my effort to add in some smaller towns, I decided to skip Madrid. Well that didn't work out too well because not only did I only get two little towns in, I had to skip Sevilla and wound up back in Madrid but only for the day! I arrived at 8:30am, stowed my backpack at the train station lockers, did the free walking tour (neweurope.com), then did a tapas tour and was back at the train station in time for the night train to Barcelona! Madrid is kind of a blur but during the walking tour, it was interesting to hear the Spanish side of the same time period I had heard about from the Portuguese perspective just a day or two before. Apparently, around the time of Columbus, the two countries figured they pretty much owned the world and had kind of decided to divided it up amongst themselves! Portugal seems to have been better at the negotiating table and that¡s why Brazilians speak Portuguese!