Getting there and back
Getting to the start, skipping a stage when you have to, and home again from the end.
Almost nobody walks the whole thing without using public transport at least once. You have to reach the start, which for most routes means a bus. You may have to skip a stage, which is a decision made suddenly, usually about a knee, usually in a village with one departure a day. And at the end you have to get home.
Those three conversations are the course. It begins with tickets, because the words on a ticket and the words at a window are the same whichever you are buying. Then buses, which is how most pilgrims arrive and how most injured ones move on. Then trains, for the longer distances and for leaving Santiago. Then taxis, which is the expensive short answer when there is no bus and the albergue ahead is full. It finishes with flying home, and the last morning of the whole thing.
55 words across 5 topics, each with example sentences and a map showing how the words connect.
What is in it
- Tickets – 12 words The window, the machine and the words on the ticket.
- The bus – 12 words after Tickets How most pilgrims reach the start, and the thing you take when the knee gives out.
- The train – 11 words after Tickets Longer distances, and the way most people leave Santiago.
- Taxis and lifts – 10 words after The bus The short expensive answer when there is no bus and the albergue is full.
- Flying home – 10 words after The train Santiago, Madrid, and the last morning of the whole thing.
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