after a minor snafu* at the barcelona train station, garrett and i are in san sebastian. we met up with his friend hayden and hayden´s friend edgar last night and had an awesome dinner with them in the parte vieja (the old part) quarter of s.s. we returned with them to france (yes, it is that close) and stayed the night there in a super nice brand new hotel. the guys went surfing today at some little beach town while i read a book and then took a nap in hayden´s van.
we´ll be here in s.s. until the 20th. i´ll blog more later...garrett´s waiting for me at our hotel.
* so our eurail printouts have so far been super accurate letting us know things like reservation necessary, first class, sleeping cars, etc. the train from bcn to ss didn´t have any special notation so despite garrett´s paranoia that we might need a reservation, we didn´t bother getting one. our 12:30pm train arrived at 12:20pm and we joined the crush of people rushing to the train and when we asked one of the train personnel which car was first class, she said we needed a reservation and could not purchase one on the train, as the eurail book indicated we might be able to. and? our train was leaving in 5 minutes. garrett got extremely upset. as distressed as i´ve ever seen him. he told me to wait and he would run up and try to get us tickets in time. but those lines for tickets were extremely long and i knew there was no way we were getting tickets in 5 minutes so i went upstairs, found garrett sweating and chewing on his fingernails in the ticket line, and told him we should just rent a car. so...that was the automobile portion of our planes, trains, and automobiles adventure. we drove 5 hours through the spanish countryside. the last 40 minutes from pamlona to san sebastian was BREATHTAKING. almost like the swiss alps.
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Unreal! You are in Hemingway country. Sorry to hear about the train problem. At least you got where you were going. Once again, thoroughly enjoying the posts. Kathy, I had not totally forgotten how fricking HILARIOUS you are! It's a talent to write with such humor. You should consider an alternate career as a travel writer if you ever tire of software. Miss you!
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