Friday, August 18th, 2006: Stranded

No more trains. Every train is booked for at least the next week. We're stranded in Valencia.

Word of advice: book everything in advance.

We had planned an extemely detailed trip with full prints of the timetables of each train we were to take over the next week.

We had reserved all hostals in advance, but assumed there would be room on the trains; the travel attendant's look of pity was translingual.

We had no place to stay this night because the train we were going to take was overnight.

But money can solve a lot of problems (unfortunately) and an extremely small rental car saved our trip. We still had time to explore Valencia before hitting the road tonight.