After Santiago, a few extra days were available...

Hello,  everyone.  We had a busy arrival day in Santiago,  getting our Compostelas, checking into our accommodation, and going down to the train station to get departure tickets. There we discovered that the people were not able to help us get the tickets. We were there too early,  and we needed to buy the tickets online or at the vending machine.

We went to the ticket vending machine, opened Monday, and discovered that the trains on Monday were sold out. Oops. Time to rework the plan. Switched to Tuesday and got early seats out. Went back to the accommodation and reserved an extra night. Sat down with cell phones on the wifi and fussed around with options until we decided on what to do with our days: Córdoba is very historic. So we got train tickets online from Madrid to Cordoba, reserved a few nights in Cordoba, and also reserved the pre-departure time in Madrid. (So we wouldn't be trying to run across the city from train station to catch the outgoing flight all at once.) Then we spent some decompression time in Santiago. 

On Tuesday we left to Madrid, took the metro across town to the other train station, and caught the train to Córdoba. This went smoothly--as long as you allow for buffer time it will work--and when we got to Córdoba we used our Spain phone Google maps to find our place.

This is dried tuna tapa. The garnish is almonds with a drizzle of olive oil. 

The other tapa we tried was gulas (baby eels, but actually imitation gulas made from fish) with garlic mayo on toast. These are the last 2 on the plate. 😉