Santiago
by Seventy - 2013
If
you really want to know what's going on here you ought to read first:
Both
Jesus de Loma and AgustÃn Gimera have invited me to stay a night with them in
Madrid and maybe one of other of them might walk a few days with me. After much humming and haaing I decide
however to take the early morning flight to Madrid and, having found that there
is an express bus from Barajas to Burgos, I can be in Burgos by 16.15 on the
same day.
(I had wanted to walk from Liphook to
Portsmouth and take the ferry to Bilbao or Santander, restarting my Camino there. However the timings are inconvenient and would
mean that spending a night in one of those ports. It would also be more expensive.)
So, here I am booked and ready to go on the 07.25 from Gatwick to Madrid.
So I have two hours and fifteen minutes to cross Barajas by following these instructions: "Passengers wishing to connect between Terminal 4 and Terminals 1, 2 or 3 should walk outside the building and follow the signs to the Shuttle bus. These green buses leave every 5 minutes during the day, with a connection time of around 15 minutes. The journey is free."
The couch potato has been – forgive the pun - sacked. As packed it weighed nearly 40 lbs., but my delightful daughters have bought me a new, lightweight rucksack and my packing list has been drastically revised. I think the new pack with a drastically revised clothing list and lightweight sleeping bag will clock in at 20 lbs.
