Monday, 30 October 2017

Travel talk

My best mate and I have travelled together for about, I dont know, but over 30 years.  Its been slowly dawning on us that all the years we spent child rearing etc have put us behind schedule on our travels. So we decided we are going to try something new. Well its sort of new but its based on what we did int he 80's when we inter-railed around Europe for a month. Sleeping on trains and every day a picnic, as we tried to stretch our money as far as we could.#

Inter-rail has moved on. You no longer get unlimited travel days, but its still doable as long as you plan properly up front. So we are off to Espana in the springtime.

Day one  - Train day
Fly from Southampton to Malaga 2 hrs 40
Train to Seville  3hr 2mins on slow track
Overnight in Seville

Day 2  - Train day
Seville exploration
Late train  to  Madrid 2hrs 33m
Over night in Madrid

Day 3  - Train day
Explore Madrid
Late train to Barcelona 2hrs 58m
Overnight in Barcelona

Day 4
Explore Barcelona
Overnight in Barcelona

Day 5 - Train day
Slow train to Valencia 4hrs 59m along the coast
Overnight in Valencia

Day 6 - Train day
Valencia to Alicante 4h 38m
Alicante to Southampton



We are flying from the local airport to save the cost of getting to a London airport plus associated costs (yes, bar and restaurant). We wont be sleeping in luggage racks this time around. Apparently there are things called hotels that grown up use instead of sleeping on the train.  We are still the queens of the on train picnic. Extremely socially acceptable in the Mediterranean countries as all of the lovely mamas send their families off to the big city laden with edibles from home.  Eve is searching out flights for us today. I am very excited


6 comments:

  1. Saving your itinerary for future reference -- Would love to do similar!

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    1. Have a look at this website MW. So many possibilities! https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/one-country-pass/spain-passes

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    2. Awesome -- Thanks Lizzie! And so sorry to hear about Fahed's bike theft.

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  2. Sounds much better than sleeping in luggage racks. I slept on trains in college. So uncomfortable and the next day was horrible, stumbling around the destination city in a fog. Being an adult with enough money to pay for comfortable accommodations sounds so much better.

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