To travel by Talgo is an absolute pleasure. Plenty of space in all classes, proper buffet car that doubles as an observation carriage. Whilst it isn’t fine dinning the bocadillos are of a reasonable standard the coffee drinkable.
For the engineering minded, gauge changing technology is employed by these trains allowing the Talgos the flexibility to use both Spanish broad gauge and Stephenson (Standard) gauge track combing the speed of Spain’s ever growing high speed rail network whilst keeping the reach of the domestic network.
Arriving on a wet afternoon and taking advantage of it being low season I book into a very pleasant hostel over looking the Bay of Santander in a surviving building of Santander’s devastating fires that has left the old town bereft of fine architecture.
