{"id":890,"date":"2013-01-29T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=890"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T20:18:48","slug":"ticket-in-spanglish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/ticket-in-spanglish\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement Unlocked: Purchase Ticket in Spanglish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nS<\/span>ixty 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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-thom","tag-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}