InterRail Soap Series part 7: The bloopers continue even further

"6) Sunday Schedule
On our second Sunday of our trip, we were in the Algarve, on the Isle Ilha da Tavira. A lovely Isle, you just have to go there. We stayed at a big campsite next to the beach. On Saturday we spent the whole day on the beach, sleeping from 10am till around 3pm.

I remember, as we went to the beach we had a nice spot on the sand, somewhere in the middle between people. After 4 hours sleeping, I woke up in the front row, almost in the water… It was high tide…

We stayed two nights on a campsite. On the Sunday, we wanted to continue our travel to Seville, only 200 kilometers away. We wanted to take an early train from Tavira to the Spanish border, to get early in the afternoon in Seville. So, we get up at 7.30am, made ourselves ready and then strike our tent. We hoped to catch the 10.45 train, but to get to the station, we had to take a ferry to get off the Isle and walk a kilometer of 2 through the village of Tavira. We arrived at the station around 10, so it was only 45 minutes till departure of the train.

10.45am. No train, and just 2 other travelers at the station. No announcement of delays or whatever. Suddenly a Belgium man came to us; he came to the station to see a train in Portugal. He also didn’t know what was going on. But then he noticed a remark on the timetable with the 10.45 train; this train doesn’t run on Sundays! The next train leaves at 12.45pm! So we had to wait for another 2 hours on a small, quiet station with no facilities. Of course, we were a little disappointed.

After 3 hours waiting (the 12.45 train was delayed for 20 minutes), the train showed up! And after a ‘hectic morning’ we finally left Tavira."

TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW...