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Feasibility advice

brian560

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CF, VdlP 2016, Port. Central, Norte , Port. Coastal (2018).San Salvador and Primitivo (2019)
I'm planning to walk the French way in October. I intend flying Manchester to Madrid arriving 1450. I then will take the metro to Atocha and then the train to Pamploma departing 1725. Bus schedules for that departure date don't appear to be available yet and I prefer to lock all bookings in now.

Is this feasible or too tight?

Cheers
 
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In my opinion, perfectly feasible. By the way, the fastest way to reach Atocha from Madrid airport is by train, the train station at the airport is right next to the Metro station in terminal T4.
 
That’s OK; but doesn’t leave much time to smell the flowers.

My preference is the yellow Aerobus from right outside the terminal. Turn right when you get outside. It’s the last bus stop. Every 20 minutes; takes 30 minutes. Atocha’s the last stop. Cash or card €6 but may have gone up a € like everything else.

When you get to Atocha go straight to departures. There’s a short security queue before you get to the final departures area.

Out of an abundance of caution it’s worth the extra few € to get a refundable/amendable train ticket. If your flights catastrophically delayed you should still have time to cancel online.
 
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Thanks for that. Remind me to bring a juicy bone should we run into each other on a camino.
 
brian560 said:
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I walked the camino twice with good friends from Australia. But sometimes your version of English and your slang might as well be Mandarin to me. I know the same is true for my friends when I speak Bronx. It is especially true when they gave me directions. What the F+%K are you saying?????? That was just a little aside leading up to:
What is a juicy bone.
I hope to walk with dear Aussies David and Emilia from Perth for at least part of my camino this year.
 
I think Brian was referring to my username which; for reasons I can’t really recall has me identifying as my dog.
 
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The yellow airport bus was AWOL my last two visits to the Madrid airport, oddly enough. I found the T4 train (not metro) to be extremely fast and easy without having to worry about vehicle traffic slowing my transit to Atocha.
 
Well, "henrythedog" gave me some useful advice so as a token of my gratitude, I promised him a juicy bone should our paths ever cross.
 
brian560 said:
Well, "henrythedog" gave me some useful advice so as a token of my gratitude, I promised him a juicy bone should our paths ever cross.
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I still do not know what the expression "juicy bone" means. Honestly that is all I wanted to know. Thanks
 
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lt56ny said:
I still do not know what the expression "juicy bone" means. Honestly that is all I wanted to know. Thanks
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A juicy bone as in a reward. I don't think he'd appreciate me rubbing his tummy.
 
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