InterRail Soap Series part 9: Jay loves waiting in line

248 people before us…
Somewhere in the second week. After Seville and Malaga, we arrived in Madrid. We found a nice place to stay close to Attocha train station. It’s a few days before August, before the holiday starts in Spain. In Spain, traveling by train is very popular. For the long distance express trains, a seat reservation with Interrail is compulsory. It’s impossible to get on a express train with Interrail, without a seat reservation. Our next leg will be from Madrid to Tarragona. So therefore we went on our first evening in Madrid to the station to reserve seats, for two days later. We thought, it wouldn’t take long getting a ticket. But of course, we were wrong again; we waited for 3 hours at the ticket- and information center of the Spanish Railways. As we came in, we had to take a number. The computer gave us the number 864. At the time that we took our number, the counter was only at number 616! So there were 248 people in before us, to get a ticket…   

                                  

TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW...