As advertised in the "Going to be away" thread, I am once again travelling in Europe, this time Spain and France. I flew to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain on Sunday, and have since made my way via Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona to Nîmes, almost on the coast in southern France. All this travel has been by train, of course. So far everything has gone according to plan: I've had a couple of late trains, but nothing with onward connections to worry about.
At the moment, I'm sitting at an outdoor restaurant table, digesting a rather good pizza, and lubricating it with some pleasant house red wine. Tomorrow I head into the Massif Central on some more scenic lines, hoping to avoid all the rail replacement bus services.