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Spent a glorious, sunny, blue sky day in San Sebastian walking the promenade to take the Funicular up the mountain. Spectacular view! More pintos before a city bus and 5 hour train trip to Segovia in central Spain. The topography was quite amazing as we left the coastal mountains and coniferous vegetation to pass through wide valleys and rolling hills. The country is drier and every inch used for cereal crops, mainly wheat as far as I can tell. The Spanish infrastructure is excellent..trains, great looking roads, power lines, loads of wind turbines, solar farms and industrial estates. It doesn’t appear that the economy is hurting in this regard!. However, the people in the towns, even in rural areas, live in apartment blocks which don’t look that fab. Its all so”spanish” though. Villages with stone churches with bells atop…just like in the old western movies! We arrived at about 10pm in the dark and bussed to our ‘Hostal’ in the older section of the city. Quick spanish hamburgers and the local soft drink before collapsing into bed.