Complejo Hotelero Las Ventas Zaragoza

... streets and some clear and sane mind, we found a camping site to park our RV in spend a night....

I found Zaragoza very quiet town. It's got a big cathedral and a square in front of it, statue of Goya and few other nice things.

But at night it's completely different. Lots of people on the streets, bars start filling at 7 p.m. and are full until 3 a.m. So, for us it was - Party time!!!

... br>Zaragoza is ... hot - well over 30 degrees! Luckily, there is a fair bit of shade in the old town, so I tried to stay relatively cool as I made it over to the hostel. There was a bit of a wait to check in, as there was a shift change taking place. I dumped off my bag, and was off to sightsee. Zaragoza is famous for La Basilica de Nuestra Senora del Pilar, a massive edifice looking over an even more massive plaza. Unfortunately, Zaragoza didn't seem ...

... us from the sun. When it comes out, it is very hot.

We are in cattle and pig country, we sure can smell it all along. We do have the air on open windows wide! We stopped at a gas station to get a slurpee, it was closed so had to walk across the highway to the station there to get a couple of pop. No slurpees here! We see a couple of huge statues of bull cows on hill tops and interesting signs ...

Boring long day on the A23, highest col 1223m.

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".

35 degree C until light shower cooled us all off.

Bren washed her hair in the public drinking fountain, starting a trend with the other family.

... it is were all the big fights happen and were the Spanish royal family come to watch. Next stop was Cadiz and then back up to Cordoba, Granada and then meeting Chris (Driver) and Gary (Trip Leader) in Marbella where we stayed for 1night and then headed to La Linea in Spain to wait for all the others on the trip to arrive into Gibraltar which is UK territory but all you need to do is walk or drive across the border which is where the airport is. We stayed here for 5nights while ...

... t there anymore, aside from my best mate "the k dog", but i really hit home in Madrid through one of the so many leaving parties of how many people have come into my life that mean so much, i mean its such a cliche sometimes to give it all that "aww you're such a mate and i you and me get on so great blah blah..." but when you literally have met people that have had such an impact on your life that are such great friends and suddenly you have to say bye to all of them ...

... 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.

... for my mum, and for the rest of my family. Not because I believe in God, but because I believe in hope. I wandered out of the square to the Black Horse English pub and threw back a Heineken before heading back to Zaragoza train station and jumping on the fast train to Madrid (also discovered that train station has comfy red settees you can sit on, it's the little things in life). I declined the complimentary headphones this time, although Charlie Wilsons war ...

... it again-EVER. Pilar is officially over. It ended today. It's kind of sad because I felt like it was the real Spanish culture at its peak. We don't have anything like the fiestas in the U.S. Spanish culture is just so different. I really could stay here forever. I have to read an entire novel today (for the 100th time!) because I don't understand it at all. I'm hoping eventually I will! Adios!

... in Zaragoza instead of Barcelona. It sounds quite nice. Words like "gracias" are somewhat ************ounce. The 'c' is pronounced like a 'th' I believe, somewhere between the 'th' in 'with' and the 'th' in 'though', but I'm never sure and I can't quite pick it when it is said properly. The train finally turned up but it was pretty packed. I had forgotten to ask for a window seat. Fortunately the conductor came by and everything was in order ...