Hola Espana! Or my first acquaintance with Spain on Costa Blanca. (Part 1 Preparation and Logistics)
It's been three weeks after my return from Spain, emotions and impressions have almost fallen, so in tradition, after every journey, I will try to share my impressions and advice with the readers of turning. This story does not claim a guide in the Costa Blanca region, it is a friendly conversation for all travelers who are prone to independent travel, and are interested in such a wonderful country as Spain.
As a rule, I plan all my travels in advance, try to calculate all the nuances of the route, logistics, mark the sights and establishments I wish to visit. This trip was not a case, but this time this time was not enough for such training. The vacation was approaching in June, but family circumstances were so that my wife was not able to make me a company.
Therefore, it was necessary to immediately create a trip plan that combined and visited new countries, and enabled it to recover by the sea, and to be in the company of people close to the spirit of people, and all this is not for all the money of the world. It is not a simple task, but whoever tries is achieving. That is why I decided to travel to Spain, where I was able to unite visiting my close relatives and tourist interests in this country. For more than three years, I have not seen my sister, who, after a full -scale invasion, went to her daughter to Spain, who has been living there for many years. Relatives kindly supported my opinion to meet on Spanish soil, and to combine a holiday with the support of family ties. In addition, they live in the resort town of Hawa, which is located in the Valencian community, the region is known as Costa Blanca (White Coast).
? SRC = "https://www.turpravda.com/newimg/3/1200x800/00/00/02/70/65/2706537. webp"/> Valencia. City Hall.
The two main components of any independent journey are logistics and accommodation. If I was resolved without any issues with residence, then it is now a difficult multi-stage exam, which requires experience and endurance from abroad. The distance to Spain is not small, so get there only a plane, so it is necessary to determine which neighboring country to fly from which airport, and to choose the most convenient destination, and all this for reasonable money. Flights to Alimante, the nearest airport to Havea, from Poland were not very convenient and cheap, although they are executed by low -cost, so the choice was made from Krakow to Valencia, which was performed by Ryanair. It is a small thing to get to Krakow at a convenient time. In general, there are two ways to get Krakow from Ukraine, it is by train and bus. Trains should be chosen that go to Przemysl, and then do a transplant to Krakow.
However, it should be noted that in Ukraine it is very problematic to buy tickets for the train both to Lviv and in the city of Poland, which fly both hot pies 20 days before departure. In my case, there was no convenient trains to the morning flight from Krakow, so I decided to get to Lviv by train and take a little walk in this mental place, in the evening to go to Krakow on the bus. Lviv met me rainy and cool weather, so the city's walk was short. There are a lot of bus flights to Krakow from Lviv, most of them go to Poland as a bus station from the station. I chose flights to Krakow Airport and in the opposite direction from Pavluks-Trans, and was satisfied with the carrier. I paid a ticket to Krakow online, and in the opposite direction only rescued and paid when landing.
Looking ahead, my gratitude to this carrier and his dispatcher, who called me when returning home during the night to find out if I have time from the plane to the bus. Together, I want to express my gratitude and Vodafone for its affordable roaming, which provided the Internet and communication throughout the journey abroad. Compared to the train, the trip to Poland is less predictable by the bus by the time of arrival. Therefore, there is a lot of talk about what time you need to put in your flight at the airport to determine what flight is to go. As I understood from my experience, carriers put possible problems on the border in the bus schedule, so most buses come on time. So my flight to Krakow Airport, despite the departure delay for 50 minutes and spent four and a half hours on the border, arrived at the airport in time at 4:10 on the schedule.
When returning to Lviv from Krakow there were no delays on the border, so they arrived in the city two times earlier. When crossing the Polish border, neither I nor other bus passengers had no problems, but this is not a reason to violate the rules of crossing the border and the import of prohibited things. Therefore, from my experience, I consider the use of buses to travel to the airports of neighboring Poland is quite appropriate.
? SRC = "https://www.turpravda.com/newimg/3/1200x800/00/02/70/65/2706542. Webp"/> Old Lviv Street, but sorry, the city becomes a little neglected.
Krakow Airport was a modern logistics hub, very well designed and built from modern materials. From the screen of the information scoreboard, I realized that this airport is servicing mainly flights of Lowcosteras, the most Ryanair.
The distribution of zones at the airport is traditional, the first floor is the arrival and registration zone and luggage, the second floor is the Tamozhenian control and safety zone, as well as numerous bottles, Duty Free, waiting and rest areas and numerical landing. There is no passport control as such because you have already passed it when crossing the border. There are many toilets on each floor, a rosette for gadgets, a recreation cities, even a church. Among the innovations of the airport is the ability to get rid of the remnants of your drinks before passing the control area, and to collect drinking water in empty containers after passing. If you have been registering for an online flight that is free of charge, unlike offline registration, your smartphone is the only document and an information scoreboard you use at the airport.
If you have a flight from Ryanair, then two queues are formed on your gay, one for ordinary passengers with only hand luggage, the other, the so -called Priority, which have additional hand luggage and priority on the flight. Who has the sizes of manual luggage visually exceed the normative ones, ask to push it into the calibration frame. Bear and behind two sleepless nights and excitement at the border and customs control at the airport, if there were reasons for this, and in front of three hours of flight and Hola Espana!
Next will be.
? SRC = "https://www.turpravda.com/newimg/3/1200x800/00/02/70/65/2706543. webp"/> Meet - Krakow Airport.
? SRC = "https://www.turpravda.com/newimg/3/1200x800/00/02/70/65/2706544. webp"/> Krakow airport outside.
