The old-school train (towards Girona)
The train has always been an ideal space for using a phrase as pedestrian as, ‘What a coincidence! Lucky I met you to help make the journey more entertaining’. The film ‘Before Dawn’ has done a lot of wrong (we can't all be Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), but it’s also made it acceptable to start uninhibited conversations while the train races along. But take care, this behaviour has some basic rules. It’s much better on the old-school train than the high-speed AVE, more than anything for the question of duration, and much better too if the train is heading to Girona. The reason is simple: in Barcelona there are too many stations for getting off the train, and it’s much more complicated to extend your chances as far as a bar, whereas in Girona you’re going to get off right in the middle of the action.