You know what's hard? Planning a trip. Do you know what's even harder? Planning a trip in a different language, in a different country. A group of friends in my program and myself have been working on planning trips for the last week with little to no success. We decided today was the day. We met up at the public bus stop to try and get a bus from Segovia to the train station so we could buy tickets. Problem is, the bus system here has stops specific to getting on and off. The stops where the passengers get off have a sitting area and look very similar to the bus stops in the United States. The bus stops for getting on the bus are a pole in the ground with the name of the stop. I'm sure you can see where this is going. As a group, we waited for line 11 at the wrong place. When the bus came, the bus driver tried to quickly tell us where we needed to wait to go to the train station and then closed the doors in our hopeful faces. We didn't quite understand what he was trying to say to us, so we started walking away. The bus driver turned around and stopped at the loading spot and honked and waited for us to run across the street and get on the bus. What a sweetie. It was roughly a 20 minute ride to the train station.
When we got there, we found out the train tickets were sold out to our planned destination for this weekend. We ended up buying tickets for the end of July instead. By the end of the day, we had reserved hotels for Salamanca, Madrid, and A Coruña. Three trips in the next four weekends. I am going to be watching my spending even more closely now and probably return to the United States completely broke, but it will be worth it. I'm here to see and experience new places and that's what I plan on doing. :) Now, we just need to figure out how the bus schedules work and how to buy tickets for those.
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| This is my little friend, rero. He's a patient traveler. |
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