I used to live in the Cádiz area when I was younger, and since life is complicated, both living and leaving there were hard. Thus, although it is a beautiful area, I had never been back until this trip. I was never brave enough – I feared that the bad memories would be too much to deal with.

However, this time around, I had a long weekend and I decided to rip the bandage and get there. There was a piece of paperwork from my time there that had been misplaced and I had been trying to get there to fix the issue online to no avail. It is a long trip, but I thought that if I took a train after work, I would “waste” the afternoon / evening travelling, and then I would have three days to (re)explore. So I left on Wednesday the 11th and returned on Saturday the 14th, both in the late afternoon – leaving me with two days and a half in the area. Even if it was back to school season already, prices were crazy, so spending Saturday night over there would be too expensive – I later found out there was a congress in Cádiz, and an event in the Jerez F1 circuit.

I bought trains from Madrid to Cádiz with a change in Seville. In the outbound trip, I had seven whooping minutes for the change, and for the return journey just about an hour. However, I still had to get to and from Madrid, so in the end it was three trains and around eight hours on the go each time!

Spoiler alert – everything went well. Except the commuter train tickets.