Inside the Bus to the Old Town of Segovia
Segovia Railway Station
It took me only 28 minutes to get from Madrid to the Segovia railway station. I was glad that they have a lot of high speed services going to Segovia, this makes it very convenient to tourists. At least I don’t need to take a bus to go to Segovia. Then again, maybe not. The railway station of Segovia was very quiet when I arrived there. It seemed to be just I and another group of tourists who seem to be from South America. I remembered that there is a bus that brings visitors from the railway station to the the old town, and it was waiting right outside the train station.
It seems that the bus synchronizes its timings with the train. This is a good thing, so visitors won’t need to scramble around for transportation to the Old Town of Segovia. The South American tourists took the first bus so I just followed them. However, the driver asked me where I would be going and he figured out that I will be going to the old town. It seems that the bus can go to different destinations. I wasn’t sure where that bus was going but the driver pointed me to the next bus, which was right behind it. I couldn’t understand the language that driver was speaking and I assumed that it was a local dialect, though my research says that Segovia speaks pure Spanish, maybe it was the way he speaks. The driver again asked me where I was going, this time he said the magic words “acueducto” or “aqueduct” in English. Now I know where I was going. You would have thought they would have at least taught the driver to speak a little English since he is effectively driving a tourist bus. It turned out that it was a special bus service for me, as I was the only one on the bus coming from the train station. The next train won’t be there until an hour later, it was time to go.
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