Erki & Katrina hitch-hiking Europe: Madrid and Navalmoral

To our surprise we arrived in Madrid today, on monday, which is great.

Hitch-hike from San Sebastian to Madrid took about 8 hours and 5 cars. Thank you to all the helpful drivers who have helped us along the way. Yeah we're here now and will enjoy Madrid and the rest of Spain. Hope to meet lots of great people :)

In Madrid we had to stay in a hostel for 3 nights. Unfortunately weren't able to find any CouchSurfers there that could host us. Hostel itself wasn't really the best one around, cheapest one actually =D
City seemed pretty cool, nightlife was active and there was lots to see during the day.

Hitch-hiking out of Madrid was hard though. On the first day we tried to head to west, in direction of Salamanca, but not one car stopped, and as it was really hot outside, we stopped sometime around 5-6 in the evening and headed back to the hostel. Second try was a bit more successful, as we got about 180km away from Madrid and had to stop in a small town called Navalmoral on the way to Portugal, as it was late in the evening by then. Actually the car that picked us up from the road and took to Navalmoral was an small town ambulance, but they seemed to be off duty at that moment. So now we have hitch-hiked on a police car and an ambulance =P

Navalmoral was a nice little town with calm people and warm weather. We took a small walk through the town and sat a bit in a small park near the bus station. It was cool to see families with small children spending their evenings out together into the early night hours. For sleeping we just selected an out of sight spot next to the bus station and just spent our night there, much more comfortable than in San Sebastian =)

Moving from Navalmoral to Portugal went a lot faster than start from Madrid, but more about that in the post covering our stay in Lisbon ;)

Note of the day: Madrid is not the best place to hitch-hike out of!