Hello all. Firstly thank you to all of you who give of your time to help pilgrims here on the forum. This is my first post, but I've been reading for a while.
My husband and I will be doing a shorter pilgrimage from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela next May. Our fervent hope is that three years later, we will have the time and ability to do the full Camino Frances pilgrimage, but one never knows what life has in store.
We are flying into and out of Barcelona, and will take the train to Sarria (we like train travel). When we return from Santiago to Barcelona, we plan to break the journey up, and stay one night in Leon and one night in Pamplona, just for a quick look around those cities.
I checked the Renfe train schedules and put in fictitious consecutive dates in July. So it shows the train from Santiago de Compostela leaves at 8:34 am and arrives in Leon at 13:02. The next day, the train leaves Leon at 8:34 and arrives in Pamplona at 13:02. And the following day, the train leaves Pamplona at, you guessed it, 8:34 and arrives in Barcelona at 13:02. So have I done something wrong? Or are trains only scheduled to leave and arrive at specific times, so they just kill time along the route? It seemed bizarre to me. They were each different fares as well, so it wasn't that I had mistakenly made the same search each time.
Any insight into this mystery? Thanks in advance!
My husband and I will be doing a shorter pilgrimage from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela next May. Our fervent hope is that three years later, we will have the time and ability to do the full Camino Frances pilgrimage, but one never knows what life has in store.
We are flying into and out of Barcelona, and will take the train to Sarria (we like train travel). When we return from Santiago to Barcelona, we plan to break the journey up, and stay one night in Leon and one night in Pamplona, just for a quick look around those cities.
I checked the Renfe train schedules and put in fictitious consecutive dates in July. So it shows the train from Santiago de Compostela leaves at 8:34 am and arrives in Leon at 13:02. The next day, the train leaves Leon at 8:34 and arrives in Pamplona at 13:02. And the following day, the train leaves Pamplona at, you guessed it, 8:34 and arrives in Barcelona at 13:02. So have I done something wrong? Or are trains only scheduled to leave and arrive at specific times, so they just kill time along the route? It seemed bizarre to me. They were each different fares as well, so it wasn't that I had mistakenly made the same search each time.
Any insight into this mystery? Thanks in advance!