We got up early this morning and packed our gear for our trip to Sevilla Spain. We had breakfast and after tidying up the room we left at 0830 to got to Zurich. Dora was able to take us as she is doing a night shift tonight. Once at the bus station we said goodbye to Dora and found a seat with a lot of leg room near the exit door. We departed and everything went well until we crossed the border into France. Here border control checked our passports and after this a sniffer dog was taken into the bus and the dog started scratching the floor furiously at one particular particular seat very close to ours. Customs removed the person sitting in this particular seat and all of his belongings as well. Customs also requested his other baggage to be removed from the main luggage compartment and 6 customs personnel commenced to search each bit of luggage. The sniffer dog was again taken onto the bus and again started to scratch the ground at this particular seat. The officer did a thorough search and removed something. Needless to say this caused a delay in the schedule and the drivers got a bit impatient and wanted to know how much longer they needed to hang around? Anyway eventually the person concerned was allowed back onto the bus. We will never really know what this dog found as the people from customs and in the bus itself were speaking in French and Spanish.
This did bring back some memories of the Swiss bomb squad and Gary but this time Gary was not the suspected terrorist but someone else was. We continued on our way and stopped somewhere for dinner. We asked someone how it could be possible to arrive at Sevilla at 2015 if we were still in France now and were informed that we were not arriving in Sevilla until tomorrow at 2015.. I could See the funny side of this but was horrified to realise we would be stuck on this bus for 36 hours and I had booked a hostel for tonight and read in the conditions that I would be charged 1 nights accommodation if we did not cancel 24 hours before. Well since we learned about this mistake with approximately 3 hours to go and no way of contacting the hostel, I knew I was going to be charged for a night without ever getting to use it. Worse still we would have to book another night as well. Expensive little mistake. We slept on and off during the night and again we again had the opportunity to watch a movie but now only at set times. It was a long way to Burgos where we had to transfer to another bus that would take us to Sevilla. Gary announced that he would not mind living in Spain as he really feels he has been reunited with an old friend. The language has not entirely been forgotten but our Spanish is still very basic and if Gary wanted to make this dream come true he better start soon with Spanish lessons. Anyway I am looking forward to a hot shower, some toothpaste and toothbrush, clean clothing and a comfortable place to sleep. I can also tell everyone safely that we are not intending to catch another bus anytime soon.
