Two day travel by train and coach from Lannion to Santiago

Train from Lannion to Rennes with granddaughter Nicola and her boyfriend Tristan. An emotional goodbye  to Tristan after a two hour wait to get a coach to Paris. Uneventful except the coach left the autoroute at one point and went into the countryside. People started asking themselves: had we got lost until the driver told us via the intercom that he was not lost - there had been an accident on the autoroute and he was trying to get round the huge trafic jam. 

Arrived in Paris half an hour.late. Which left us two hours until our next coach to Santiago. There was no bar or bistro, only vending machines which took only cash in the shape of coins - no touch bankkcards, no banknotes! I had carefully reduced the number of coins in my purse. So we threw our coins together and managed to extract two small bottles of water from the machine, plein and lemonaded.

And sat on a bench outside the bus station and had our evening meal with a view over a grassy expanse which was amazingly green considering the drought we have had for several months now.

Got our bus, a comfortable new one, which is only half full with mostly Germans. Stopped writing because of an involved conversation with Nicola and anyway you cannot write while the bus is moving  - too wobbly...

That was yesterday. We are now Thursday, 25th. Our bus picking up petrol/gas at the bus station in Bilbao. Had a reasonable sleep on the window seat which I had requisitioned for the night because you sleep better, curled up against the window. Now, almost 8 am, Nicola is at the window fast asleep, sniffling gently. 

Made it to Santiago! What a day! Arrived at about 4:50 pm in reasonable shape and after repacking the accumulated bits to reduce the number of items we had to carry we set forth on a 30 min walk from the bus station to out hotel in the center of town. A quick sleep, a walk about, evening meal in our room - we had had too much to eat for the meal at the service station, so we just had the sandwich we had bought then. And so to sleep. Tomorrow the others will arrive, all eight of them from London!



Comments

  1. Britta HorzAugust 25, 2022 at 2:30 AM

    Wie schön, dass es jetzt mit dem Blog klappt. Unser ukrainischer Gast, Serjei Karavanski, ist ein Computergenie und hat alle Fehler erkannt und beseitigt.
    Wir bewundern Dich natürlich sehr, dass Du so tolle Wanderungen machen kannst. Dann geht ja heute wohl der eigentliche Camino los. Seid alle umarmt 0000 von Britta

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  2. InaAugust 26, 2022 at 12:12 AM

    Wir wandern morgen los. Heute nachmittag treffen Nicola und ich im Flughafen die anderen acht, die alle zusammen aus London anreisen.

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  3. InaAugust 26, 2022 at 12:14 AM

    Andrea, wir müssen diese blöde Überschrift noch weg kriegen. Mit dem Camino Mozárabe hat dieser ja nichts zu tun. Ich frage mich, wieso das “System” das hier hinein bringt.

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