Thanks to all our changes of plan we didn’t have long in Zaragoza, but on first viewing, that is something we need to correct. Our train on to Nimes was early afternoon, so we had the morning to try and discover the city. This was inevitably something of a cook’s tour, but it gave us a taste of what the city is like. To summarise, it seems something of a...
From Tangier we started the trip home. This began with a taxi to the Tangier ferry port for the ferry across to Tarifa. This is the same ferry which we should have got a day earlier, but was cancelled due to the weather in the Straits of Gibraltar. We turned up fairly early, but it seems there was little point in doing this. We queued for security and then border...
So, back on the train again at Madrid Atocha station, but this time we saw a different area of the station as we were getting on one of the Spanish fast trains. These trains go from a separate area of the station and you have to go through X-ray security, even though you are staying within Spain. Still, we’ve got nothing to hide, so after a bit of a wait we got...
The train to Madrid was a slower one. We got on at 9am and arrived (about 15 minutes late) at Madrid around 4pm. After some initial bemusement we worked out the way to the metro and managed, despite the best efforts of the machine, to buy a rechargeable card for the Metro. That seemed a little gratuitous given the small number of journeys we were likely to make, but...