{"id":41454,"date":"2013-01-29T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/achievement-unlocked-purchase-ticket-in-spanglish\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T16:41:49","slug":"achievement-unlocked-purchase-ticket-in-spanglish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/achievement-unlocked-purchase-ticket-in-spanglish\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement Unlocked: Purchase Ticket in Spanglish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bus<\/a><\/p>\n

Sixty days from today, I fly to Spain. Sixty days in advance is the earliest you can purchase a train ticket in Spain using Renfe<\/a>‘s web site.<\/p>\n

Since I need to get from Madrid to Pamplona (and thence to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port), I figured I would buy a train ticket today.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I learned: the train takes three hours and the ticket is more than twice the cost of a bus ticket. The bus does take five hours, but has the added advantage of leaving directly from the airport.<\/p>\n

So I went to the Alsa <\/a>site and worked my way through the mix of English and Spanish on the site’s “English” pages. Thank goodness for Google Translator.<\/p>\n

So that’s one more thing off my rapidly shrinking list of Things To Take Care Of Before I Leave<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The next big one is, of course, Francine’s air tickets. We’ve been holding off for a better fare, since she doesn’t leave for Spain until 17 April. I continue to be amazed that the fares can vary by several hundred dollars on any given day.<\/p>\n

Once that’s taken care of, we’ll look for RyanAir or train tickets to get us back to Madrid from Santiago de Compostela after our Camino.<\/p>\n

We’ll also have to get her a train ticket from Madrid to Le\u00f3n to start her Camino, but I’m hoping those will be cheaper since it’s a commuter train.<\/p>\n

And phones! Got to get a pair of burner phones.<\/p>\n

Still, the list is shrinking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty days from today, I fly to Spain. Sixty days in advance is the earliest you can purchase a train ticket in Spain using Renfe‘s web site. Since I need to get from Madrid to Pamplona (and thence to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port), I figured I would buy a train ticket today. Here’s what I learned: the train takes three hours and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-aMC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86816,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/getting-to-the-camino-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":41454,"position":0},"title":"Getting to the Camino","author":"Thom","date":"15 February 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We hope to begin our 2016 Camino in the quaint French mountain village of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, a name that more or less means \u201cSaint John at the Foot of the Pass\u201d. 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