Spanish Trains - Uneven at Best

Having encountered issue after issue with trains on our first European leg from Slovenia to Austria to Italy, we were a bit hesitant about trains in Spain, but with the distances, and flight prices, we just couldn’t justify anything else. And, to be fair, the train rides from Madrid to Granada, and from Seville to Barcelona, went swimmingly.

Yet on the Barcelona to Valencia leg, it all came crashing down. Even with designated seats, trains and seats may change any time it seems, with random train changes introduced even on relatively short legs such as this. Ordinarily this would not be an issue of course, but having paid for a table space for the five of us, we were bummed to end up with a basic short-legged seat on the new train.

More importantly, the downgrade means that you are bumped into a car that has nearly zero luggage space because in this bizarro new world, people just travel with backpacks and purses? We’ve managed to travel 10 months without having to put our 50lb monsters in the overhead racks. Streak broken.

But I shouldn’t be complaining, there’s always someone with a bigger suitcase — or, in this case, a vegetable cart doubling as a stroller?