Two hours to wait for the connection from Lisbon to Faro, and there's an internet cafe...

[johnny9fingers]

Thus far it's been a bit of an adventure. Up at 6am yesterday. The train from St Pancras to Gard du Nord took about 3 hours. You wouldn't want to take the Paris Metro and then negotiate Montparnasse station if you were a disabled person, but that aside....

The TGV down to Irun was pleasant. The Trenhotel from Irun to Lisbon was delayed by over an hour, but then we had our baggage x-rayed and embarked on the overnight sleeper at 11.30pm. We arrived in Lisbon at 10.38am today and have to wait now for our connection to Faro at 1.20pm.

Met a few nice folk on the train. One, a Texan called Scott had just run with the bulls at Pamplona. Shades of Papa Hemingway. Apparently he has a blog at blogspot: scottstriptospain. I shall have to look it up. Another, a lass from North London, who had earlier in the week had a panic attack on an airplane, was taking the train to meet up with her family.

A couple of nice Canadian lasses also got in on the general conversation.

The people one meets travelling are rather fun; but the travelling itself is a bit of a pain.

We pick up our hired car at about 6-ish this evening. It's been a long couple of days, and I'm looking forward to lying by the pool for a bit when we get to our villa.

I hope summer is wonderful for you all.

 

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[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Portugal. Memriz...

You've sensed it right. Its not the traveling itself, its the people you meet that make traveling so great.

I hope you'll have lotsa fun and less pain with this constant coming and going! :)