Lovely video, subscribed. Sorry for saying this at every video

Great video. i like your detailed reviews. Just to add a few background details and an small corrections of pronunciations. The bran of Renfe's high speed should be read as a word: A-VE. This is usually the norm in Spanish, and many other languages, when the initialisms can be read as a word it is usually the way to call it, especially when it becomes a bran. AVE is a bran that does mean Alta Velocidad Española but as a bran was meant to be read as a word since AVE is bird in Spanish and you can see this depicted in the logo. It's like you sat Renfe, not R-E-N-E-E (originally initialisms of Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles). For Figueres: Like in other languages (from Latin) the G can be soft or hard and before i and e it's soft so in order to make it a hrd G you add the U before, but do not pronounced it so it's Fi-Ge-Res (the end is pronounced more like RAS). For Girona, since the names are Catalan the soft G is more like a soft G in English but softer (closer to J in French). As for competition. I know some have reservations about it but,as you rightfully say, we should use train as much as possible and the fact is that the best way to do it is lower prices. The infrastructure and regulation remains in the hands of the government but private operators can use it for a fee, just like in the airline industry. As for the relations between Renfe/Spain and SNCF/France. Spain embraced open access completely making things as easy as possible for companies like SNCF, that operates their low cost Bran OuiGo while France/SNCF do all they can to prevent it or delay it. The breakup came from SNCF that without any problems continued their Paris Barcelona rout after it while the French government did not allow Renfe to do the same and demanded they go though a very very long process, even though they operated trains there for years. Finally they had no choice but they delayed the approval of the rout to Paris, and once again now as it was suppose to start now but will only happen (probably) in Autumn - after the Olympics (Spain's athletes were suppose to get to Paris by train). The fact that the HSR line to Spain is still not finished and the connection on the other side in Irun (Basque Country) is even further away is just more of the same thing.

Did you notice the seats are the same ones NS uses on their ICRm coaches?

Hello just found your Channel and liked what i saw so will be watching more ,oh and i've subscribed😂 this is a journey i've done a few years ago but from valence tgv my home town,i've also been looking at going down to Barcelona flying end of august but by the time i get to Lyon airport check in etc it's roughly the same time as the AVE train then the cost ,all one way prices ,63 euros for the train only 28euro's to fly but add on the price of getting to Lyon airport is high there is a tgv direct to Lyon airport but cost is over 50 euros for a 30 minutes trip!! going to Lyon part dieu then the tram to the airport is also roughly 50euros ,and as you said that station is very crowded but i know it well so i have no problems, it seems like the area is always like a building site thats never ending,it must be over 10 years there has been work somewhere at the station ou very close to the station 😂😂 Anyway thank you for the video and will now watch your next one

You mentioned there is a train from Toulouse to Barcelona. Is that a direct connection? Didn't know about that one...

Thanks for the video! Will there be a video about the Frecciarossa ???

There are two reasons why Renfe uses its oldest high-speed trains, the 100 series, to run in France: - Firstly, because they are the same as the French Alstom TGVs. France puts a lot of obstacles in the way of homologating non-SNCF trains, so Renfe chose to homologate these trains identical to its own. Still, the French authorities put every possible problem they could think of. - Secondly, because once these trains were approved, Renfe decided to order 100% new trains to make French connections (and other domestic ones in Spain). The Talgo AVRIL. These trains should have been in operation 1 or 2 years ago, but they have had a lot of technical problems and it's only been a month since they started running in Spain. And they still continue to have problems, besides a confrontation between the company Renfe and the manufacturer Talgo. If nothing (more) goes wrong, in the coming months we should see the new AVRIL replacing these 100 series in France, and Renfe entering new corridors like Lyon-Paris. Thanks for your video.

Was the audio system working? Ut usually does

9:18 THE AVE, THE BEST TRAIN IN THE WORLD

do maths ===={ 130 km/hour } ====

what a horrible trainstation of Lyon!