Re: [travelspain] AVE to Valencia

[John Zumsteg]

We'll be able to go from Madrid to Valencia, have paella and return in a
day!

Roger Warwick wrote:
> El País announced today that the high-speed AVE train will link Madrid
> and Valencia by the end of 2010 and Madrid to Alicante in 2012:
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/AVE/llegara/Valencia/finales/2010/elpepuesp/20090714elpepunac_13/Tes
>
> The journey time to Valencia will be just 1 hour 30 minutes.
>
> Roger.
>
>
> >

[Roger Warwick]

(My apologies, but I'm sending this message again because I accidentally deleted it from the group's webpage)

[Webmaster - Conference Coordinator Spain]

I do Malaga - Valencia, paella and back in a day by car already! Perks
of the job haha

[John Zumsteg]

My first trips to Spain were business trips to Madrid,and the people I
worked there with loved to go to Duque's in Segovia for lunch. We'd
leave Madrid about noon, drive to Segovia, have a huge meal, walk around
the town for a bit, then drive back, arriving back in Madrid at 8
o'clock or so. A long way to go, but worth it!

John

[Roger Warwick]

Hey, we've got a theme going here: lunch trips!

Here's one I love, which can even be done on the bus: Madrid to Chinchón (Number 337 bus from Plaza Conde Casal), suckling pig for lunch in the picturesque square, the local variety of anisette liqueur called Chinchón as digestif, and back to Madrid by evening.

Roger.

[John Zumsteg]

That is now on my list of "next trip to-do's"!

Roger Warwick wrote:
> Hey, we've got a theme going here: lunch trips!
>
> Here's one I love, which can even be done on the bus: Madrid to
> Chinchón (Number 337 bus from Plaza Conde Casal), suckling pig for
> lunch in the picturesque square, the local variety of anisette liqueur
> called Chinchón as digestif, and back to Madrid by evening.
>
> Roger.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM, John Zumsteg
> <jzum...@directionsconsulting.com

[Stewart Fishburne]

Here's an extract from my trip report from our trip to Madrid in September 2002 (can it really be that long ago?)

We enjoyed a glass of something in the Cafe de Oriente in the square between the theatre and the royal palace one evening, and noticed that it had a wonderful deli attached to it in the side street (Carlos III). We had planned to be here the next day anyway, so bought a wonderful 'self-select' picnic form the sandwiches, rolls, pastries and cakes. The whole lot were beautifully wrapped on a board and off we went to sit under the trees of the square amongst the sleeping siesta people with our books (we are great readers) and our picnic. Wonderful.

I still remember that lunch with pleasure. And a bit lighter on the carbon-footprint and the wallet than Valencia or Segovia! I hope the cafe is still there and still producing great food.

 

Regards

 

Stewart