Ah Agora World Trade Center Zaragoza

Spent another night on a parking lot near the city centre. When trying to find a decent place to park our van near all the sights, we got caught up in a lybyrinth of narrow streets, filled with cars (sometimes even in the middle of the crossings...). Well, Bo&#353;tjan is a very good driver, but my nerves are not as good as I thought.<br><br>With the help of a security guard at a bank in one of the ...

... over to the end of the bed, where the ladder was. But climbing down a ladder is for sissies, so I still hopped off - unfortunately, the two ladder posts stuck out slightly, and as I hopped off the bed, my butt landed directly on top of one of the posts. This hurt. A little. Actually, it hurt A LOT. <br><br>Not only did this cause me great pain, but it imparted a forward rotation on me, causing me to land much farther forward than I had intended ...

... short ones. We are on our way to Zaragoza on the west side of Spain. <br><br>We go through farm land, then fruit orchards, we couldn't figure out what they grown, but there are lots of fruit packing plants along the highway. I kept thinking there would be fruit stands somewhere, but they never materialized.<br><br>At lunch time we stopped at a rest area along the highway. It is quite warm, but the clouds are ...

Boring long day on the A23, highest col 1223m.<br> <br>Looking for aire in Zaragoza when Brits James, Clare and Katie in their motorhome took us under their wing to the park they'd already stayed in. Left over from 2008 water based expo, with typically spanish rusty iron "sculpture".<br><br>35 degree C until light shower cooled us all off.<br><br>Bren washed her hair in the public drinking fountain, starting a trend with the other family.

... this trip from Gibraltar to Cameroon for 13weeks. The trip prices normally includes a flight from London to Gibraltar but we decided to travel through Spain and Portugal for 4 weeks before hand as made sense as didn't want to get a job for 1month with the current situation in the UK. So we flew back from Cape Town on the 1st February not really wanting to come back to the freezing cold. We had trouble landing as this was the week London had all the snow so we had to circle in the ...

... the home town of Elena where everyone refers to each other as a maño o maña being the collegial term of one of the inhabitants. quite weird to to hear really as its not like "mate, son, boss, etc" its something that everyone uses through all ages, status, walks of life or whatever i mean being English can you really imagine talking to your gran and calling her "mate", or having a chat with a bank manager and then he/she just shouting out "alright son"to one of his ...

... years old built of dry fit stone and stil standing: From Zaragoza we travelled ,ore easterly toward Lleida Catalan. Amongst the ochre coloured rocks and mist blue with mountain ranges were immense wind farms. Turbines and tozers several hundreds of feet high. Onward our lovely 1 litre Fiat Punta purred toward LLieda.

... was the appointed ruler of all the Muslims on Earth following the death of Mohammed. Following the first four Caliphs (known as the righteously guided or Rashidun Caliphs) the Umayyad dynasty came to power, ruling from Damascus in Syria. They were overthrown in 750 by the Abbasids and a majority of them were killed, however one of them escaped and fled to what is now Spain, establishing a rival Caliphate in the city of Cordoba, which ruled over most of ...

... had a mental breakdown and he was like "are you stressed?" you think? God! But I feel better now and there's like a tutor person for the school and he said I can see her for help in Historia de Espana because that's where I'm struggling the most. Estoy mejor ahora. This weekend I went to the park with Wade and it was so much fun. He wanted to tan because he's from Florida and feels pale so we went to "lay out." He brought those ridiculous shorts that swimmers wear ...

... again - must be some sort of pride thing. A new guy, very cool and better dressed but with only a red rag, taunts the bull to strong applause. He is, I think, a more important guy. He is very macho and arrogant and shouts at the bull. He gets very close without being touched. A rhythmic clap and the orchestra starts up as the tension rises. The guy draws his thin sword from behind his flag and with a cry stabs it into the same place as everyone else has already. The ...