Eliot's Travels

Heading to Anadulcia

When the tax picked us ap 5:30 am to head to the Rotterdam airport, our driver said that the trains were still down because of the weather and debris on the tracks. He had maded 2 separate trips during the night to Brussels and back.

When we arrived at the airport we grabbed breakfast and waited for our flight. Luckily, our plane was still going as planned - 7 am to Malaga, Spain. We arrived without problems in Malaga. We tried to find the city bus, but it was unclear how often they came, so we just took a taxi to the main bus station. Based on advice from the travel guide, the way to travel around Spain (from major city to major city) was via bus. The trains were about the same price, but much less frequent and not as reliable. A totally different system from Holland where train travel rules! We arrived at 10:25 which gave us plenty of time to catch the 11:00 bus (the next one would have been at 1:00). We piled on board for the 2.5 hour ride to Sevilla.

The scenery in route was totally different than that of Holland: rolling hills, even mountains, olive groves, and white-washed buildings. Outside Malaga, we saw a beautiful cemetary on a hill with its white masoleums and huge headstones. There were olive groves everywhere - almost any open land was a farm. The landscape was dry and brown. We arrived at the Sevilla bus station around 1:30.

posted by Whitney @ 1:11 AM