It’s been another long travel day this Sunday. We’ve literally travelled by private driver, plane, Cercanía (local commuter rail), high speed rail and (later) Uber.
We were up early and on time to Tangier airport only to have our flight delayed by two hours, meaning that we would not be able to arrive in Malaga in time for 2pm Mass.
Matthew used his recent flying experience to quickly get online and determine that our plane had not even left from its previous location. He was then able to track our planes movements so the he had better updates than the airport gate agents!
Fortunately, the inbound flight was only an hour long, so the total amount of our delay did not pose any threat to our connecting train in Malaga. Upon its arrival, however, it was one of those small regional planes with propellers that doesn’t pull up to the terminal so you end up having to walk a quarter of a mile out on the runway with all your bags and climb a set of stairs in the late morning heat to get into the plane. But we made it. And for the duration of our short one hour flight back to Spain I learned how to use the compass and level on my phone as make shift aeronautical gauges.
All that had us touching down in Malaga about 1:30pm. So we were awake for 7 hours to make the progress of a one hour flight! Oh well, that’s what travel days are for, I suppose.
As for our arrival back into “civilization”, the improvements were immediately noticeable in the quality and modernity of the airport, including seamlessly integrating with the rail lines to get us main city train station.
And what a nice train station it is! Malaga gets the award for best train station so far. It was more like a shopping mall with trains than a train station with shops. Which was a good thing since we needed to kill a few hours before the next leg of the journey, which we’re now onboard and enjoying the scenery.
And instead of Mass in Malaga this afternoon, it looks like we’ll be able to make it to the 8pm in Granada!
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