What it's like travelling all the time

 So we are are leaving France for now. Next stop Valencia, Spain. I will miss the sound of the French language. My favorite phrase: s'il vous plait (if you please). I just like the way it sounds. We heard it often.

We took Transavia airlines to Malaga, Spain on the southern coast of Spain, quite far from Valencia. It was the cheapest way to go. Never heard of Transavia but the flight was fine except for that hard landing (dude.....). Flying on some of these planes, the space is so small between you and the seat ahead of you makes me long for the back of a C130. 

So short layover and on to Ryanair, which we've been on before. (Another hard landing) These budget airlines have their flight attendants come through with a cart with all these products for sale like cologne, jewelry, etc. Pretty bizarre. Ryan air has more leg room.

Off the plane and now to find how to get to the airbnb. Google maps is a wonderful thing. We have to go on the metro. Cities have zones with fares and we weren't sure we had the right number for the ticket so we went to the info desk. Stood in long line and when we got up there older woman no habla English. So we went to the ticket machine and bought tickets and hoped for the best. We got through the ticket entry, got on metro, got off at our stop. Walked half a mile to the airbnb (not unusual)

This has been our life for the past 18 weeks. Navigating train systems, airports, public transportation. Now they're in different languages. 

We have taken 6 plane flights, 11 long ride trains (some with transfers). We have used 2 subway systems, 4 tram systems, 4 city trains, 2 bus lines and one place we just walked.  We have stayed in 9 airbnbs, 5 hotels. We have been to 9 countries, 12 cities. And a partridge in a pear tree.

I had no clue what this trip would be like . I had stars in my eyes about spending a month in 12 countries. That changed almost immediately. It's just too expensive to rent an airbnb for a month in the height of tourist season. So we starting spending less than a month most of the time, a lot of time a week. Moving so often is stressful. 

Living in airbnbs is hit or miss. We have a had a couple of really nice ones. The rest have been mediocre to bad. The hotels have been fine, expect for one.

Interspersed with all this has been a wonderful trip of sights that I never expected to see in my life. 

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October 01, 2022 at 06:26PM