The railway station for Jimena is down the bottom of the hill in Estación de Jimena, (now Los Angeles) and the track runs from Algeciras through to Ronda and beyond; you can change at Bodadilla (the Crewe of Spain) and get to Granada, Madrid, Seville….It’s a jolly useful line. However there are rumours of closure to the smaller stations, which I truly hope don’t happen. There is a very nice bar just a few stops up the track in Jimera de Libar, Bar Allioli, which has live music and it’s great to catch the train up and back on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
By the way, I now have 50 of you following my blog! This may seem a small amount to some of you ‘superbloggers’ out there, but I am dancing around the room with excitement 🙂 Thank you all for your support x
Spanish scribbles 
Another good one! This reminds me we must take the trauin again soon.
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I’m so jealous about your train station. No seriously, I am! Granada is our closest and that’s a 45 minute trek. I’ve always loved stations, maybe it has something to do with adoring ‘The Railway Children’ as a child! Love your picture, very atmospheric.
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Thanks, Lottie 🙂
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Toledo, where I live, had a beautiful train station, but you can only go to Madrid and back – there are no other destinations! I wonder if it’s always been like this…
http://ladyofthecakes.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/toledos-treasures-toledo-train-station/
Let’s hope yours doesn’t close!
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Yes, we’re all hoping… 🙂
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Love travelling by train. That line also leads to the small town of Arriate, near Ronda, where a great music festival is held each October. Angelica was invited to set up and draw portraits there a couple of years running, and we got to stay free at the local hostel, which is actually on the station platform. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending whether you want to stay at the hostel or catch a train, there are hardly any trains. We wanted to do both but never got to catch a train.
The hostel is a big dormitory, which we had to ourselves. Except for once when one of the bands stayed. We hardly got a wink that night and all the portraits turned out wonky the following day.
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I don’t know that festival at all but will definitely be looking it up! Sounds like you had a good time even if you didn’t get much sleep 🙂
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Well done! I know I’ll be delighted if I make it to 50! As for me, my first experience of this line was when we decided to walk from estacion de gaucin to gaucin itself, we knew it was not very close, we just had no idea it would be 12 kilometres!
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Yes, I think a few people have been had by that….It’s a bit like Ryan air not really landing near the main cities 🙂
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Yes that’s exactly how I describe it to people now!
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Congratulations on your 50 followers! That looks like a wonderful little railway station.
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Thanks! 🙂
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Hi Wendy 😀 Great drawing. Looks like our station at Cortes de la Frontera ! Congratulations on your 50th. Quite a landmark for you. Ralph xox ❤
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Congratulations on hitting ’50’. A great picture, this reminds me of a great sunny afternoon I spent with you.X
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Thanks Marion, you’ll be back here soon x
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Hi Wendy, So nice to have discovered your Andalucian blog & congrats on reaching the big 5-0 😉 Sorry I didn’t know of you when I completed my Camino last fall and spent a couple of weeks down south; would have been nice to meet. Love your sketches!! Thanks for reading and enjoying my guest-blog entry on Steve’s blog (!). You might want to look up my friend Lottie’s blog too.. she lives in your neck o’ the woods: lottienevin.com.
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Thanks very much! 🙂 I look forward to reading more on your blog. I am already following the lovely Lottie 🙂
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The train station looks like a typical village train. Not that I actully know how a village train station appears in real life. But I find the composition very appealing with the subtle colors.
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Thank you! Actually you are right, most of the stations along this track are very similar.
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I love train travel, I hope your little station doesn’t close, it looks like such a fun place 🙂
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I took this wonderful little trip train to Granada 2 yrs ago and changed in Bobadilla. BTW thanks for the “like” of my post on the Life in Russia blog!
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Wendy, the number of your followers can only grow and grow. You deserve them! SD
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Thank you, Sandra x
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You are such a great painter, I’m sure you will keep dancing. Love all your posts
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Thank you so much!
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