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It's 3 am and the young party people are still raging away downstairs. I managed a siesta today so I think I'll just grab a coffee from the machine in the lobby and start my day. How do they do it!?
They must be vampires.
1. If you have a ticket somewhere from he Atocha station (like mine to Makaga) then your Cercanius ticket that morning is free. So instead of paying to take the Metro to the station, I'll go one floor down and take Circanius.
2. Since I was here two years ago, there was s a very fancy security you must go through to board the train. Has that always been in place? I don't remember it.
Buen Camino, Portland friend!No prefix for this route.
Hello all.
I arrived in Madrid this morning.
It's an absolute madhouse!
I've never seen so many tourists this early in the season.
Weather was beautiful today but raining lightly now at 10 pm.
Got my Vodafone SIM, food, and am meeting with my next door neighbor from Portland for coffee tomorrow morning. Dang, we're all so world-travelled!
Then I'll spend much of the day saving the maps I'll need to get me through the olive trees.
My train leaves for Malaga Sunday morning early. About 2.5 hour trip. Ticket was 55 euros.
I will spend one night at Aparamentos Marques de la Merced, tourist around, get my Credential. Night 2
I found a pension right across the street from where the Camino begins in Junta de Los Caminos. It is called Alojamiento Jose Carlos and is 25 euros for one night single.
Next day I will begin walking.
You can follow my blog at www.caminosantiago2.blogspot.com
Annie thank you so much for sharing this experience here & doing a blog!!Sunday 17 April. Zero sleep last night. I stayed awake all night. By 3 am I was afraid to go to sleep and miss my train so I stayed up.
Made it onto the train. Wow! Spain has USA's Amtrak looking like we are a third world country. Beautiful clean waiting rooms. Beautiful clean train. Checked in using my iPhone. Good security. Just a very positive experience.
The trip from Madrid to Malaga took under three hours and I met have dozed because what felt like 10 minutes later, we were in Córdoba. That was good to know because if all goes well, I will finish this stretch in Córdoba. Then I can train to Madrid, hop to the airport and jump a bus to Pamplona where I need to be by the 6th or 7th.
Malaga is beautiful. It was too early to check into my apartment so I spent the morning attending Mass at the Cathredal, then visiting the Alcazaba. Entrance to the Alcazaba is free after 2 pm on Sunday's but I paid a pensioner fare of €,60 because I got there early. Photos on my blog.
I really needed a restful night so I requested a tiny apartment in the interior of Apartamentos Marques de la Merced. It's a pretty and well stocked apartment in the Old District for €34. Has a stove, fridge, washing machine, hot showers, tv, and a big double bed (matrimonial). I could be happy living here!
Tomorrow I may meet up with Maggie then need to find a bus to Junta de Los Caminos where I have rented a room, across the street from the trail, for €25
Malaga weather is beautiful today but showing thunderstorms the first two days I walk. I'll have to check with Maggie about how the trail will be affected. I don't mind a little rain, but lightening scares me so I may hold off that day depending on what it looks like.
Ok. That's it for today. Breakfast was €3 in Plaza de la Merced and consisted of toast, jam, orange juice and coffee. my plan was to cook tonight but I'm fried after no sleep do I may grab a Donar Kabab for €4 and call it good.
Photos on the blog. More tomorrow.
I will finish this stretch in Córdoba. Then I can train to Madrid, hop to the airport and jump a bus to Pamplona where I need to be by the 6th or 7th.
I'm glad to see you are starting to enjoy. Let's hope you get much more enjoyment along the route.
I don't know if you already have your plane ticket to Pamplona but if you don't have it, I wouldn't bother to take a plane and would take a train instead. Direct trains from Madrid to Pamplona depart from Puerta de Atocha train station (the same one used by the trains coming from Córdoba) so you would avoid that way the hassle of getting to Madrid airport and from Pamplona airport to downtown Pamplona as well as the waiting time in the airport (longer then the one at the train station). In addition, planes are more likely to run late than trains.
What, again C Clearly???Sorry we didn't meet last night, but you know how each day (or portion thereof) presents a new plan. We have alarms set now to depart from Spain tomorrow morning.
Ben Camino!
The route home now, after 6 weeks in Spain - about 3 on Caminos and 3 more as a backpacking tourist.What, again C Clearly???
That's just great! What route?
Done. You can now select it for new threads created in the Camino Mozarabe forum here:Sounds great Maggie.
Moderators or Ivar, could you add a colorful 'Live From Camino Mozarabe' header for those of us walking this route?
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