If there ever was a real life John Candy - planes, trains, and automobiles story this is it. Keep in mind NONE of us had slept for about 32 hours prior to this picture being taken. In addition, we all had worked full 8 hour shifts prior to boarding our SpanAir flight from IAD to MAD. None of us could sleep on the plane. You guessed it we were primed and ready as a group of people travelling together.
It gets better. Ok, it was 32 hours of no sleep when this picture was taken. It was going to be another 12 hours before we can catch our train to Algecerias, Spain. So we had all this time to etiher find a comfortable place to sleep or be tourists. We all agreed to be tourists and take on the Prado. MISTAKE!
Finally its time for us to board the train heading south. We all were sound asleep when in the wee hours of the morning, the train stops. The conductor is going car to car waking people in sleepers. Everybody off the train. The tracks are flooded. You have to transfer to a bus to Algecerias. All the passengers on the train have to walk with luggage in tow or on our backs to the bus approximately 2 miles away in the middle of the morning on just a few hours sleep in a torrential downpour to board this bus to Alegcerias. When we all got to where the bus was to be. NO BUS! Finally after waiting for about 1 hour, a bus arrives to take us the remainder of the 4 hour bus ride to Algecerias. There we hit the jackpot. The bought our tickets to Tangiers on the Moroccan ferry. Instead of a ferry, we must have had the King's private yacht. This thing was LUXURY to the hilt. It was my first Mediterrianian cruise for $20.00 U.S. We all were most happy and thought this made all the chaos worthwhile.
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