Travellers' Purgatory

After our amazing New Years in Ibiza, we dazedly dragged ourselves to the airport to catch our flight back to Valencia, where our onwards train to Granada would depart.

Hindsight. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Of course, it’s only good if one has it BEFORE booking tickets. Had I had it earlier, I would have booked a much later flight back to Valencia and maybe forget the overnight train to Granada, which didn’t depart until 1am. Thus allowing us a sleep in and avoiding spending 12 hours in what I like to now refer to as, “Travellers’ Purgatory”.

Travellers’ Purgatory will almost always occur at least once during a long holiday. It is where one is stuck between destinations for an extended period of time, waiting for their connecting train, flight or bus. It often leads to boredom, a sudden onset of tiredness and, in the most extreme cases, crankiness. We managed to delay it for as long as possible by enjoying a Menu del Día (my three favourite words) and walking around the city. However, what made our case of Travellers’ Purgatory worse was that it was a public holiday, so most things were closed. However, the Golden Arches delivered us some salvation in the form of free wifi (this blog was proudly brought to you by McDonalds).

3 hours of wifi, some pintxos, churros, hot chocolates and 2 episodes of Arrow later, our train arrived and we promptly tucked ourselves into our beds with eager anticipation of arriving in Granada the following day (praying we won’t encounter Travellers’ Purgatory again).