Conquistador 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 ...

... civil war.<br><br>I walked back through the plaza towards the hostel, and regretted not staying in San Sebastian another night. Zaragoza wasn't that great, but I always maintain that visiting a place you don't like is a valuable experience, because it helps you refine your tastes and makes the good places seem even better. And besides, if you never went, how would you know it wasn't any good?<br><br>Back at the hostel, one of the bunkmates was a ...

... sign on the bridge says 15.23 and 33 degrees, yes, it is very hot. We walk past some Roman shop ruins and their great sewage system. There is a statue of Caesar Augustus with stone arched walls behind him. Some of the brick work here is the influence of the Muslim era.<br><br>The Basilica de Nuestra Sra. Del Pilar is really beautiful outside, with statues along the top, colourful tiles on the roof and about ...

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.

... cook, having done a trip before with Chris, Ian and I cooked the first night, we have meet a really nice couple Ben and Sarah from Australia who are doing the 43weeks they arrived on the 2nd night so got very friendly with them so we all cooked Spag Bol for dinner nice and simple. The trip officially started on the 14th March so we headed to the Algeciras to catch the ferry into Morocco which only took 35minutes there is only 1 ferry that is big enough to fit the truck but only had ...

... if your old man has got a beemer or other meaningless **** and if you fall outside of that you are shagged, you can take my route of trying to "fit in" through being a prick and going on the rob trying to be the big man but from how many friends i have now from school, well it all seems a little superficial and to be honest pathetic option, especially when i hear about people at school who took **** for bieng a geek or whatever the word was then or now, but these days ...

... 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.

I woke up about 9am, my latest start for about a week, and hauled myself downstairs to check out, before dragging myself three kilometres to Delicias train station to get a reservation on the evening train to Madrid. After some frenzied negotiation with a friendly woman who spoke no English I managed to secure myself a seat on the 14.32 train instead. I'd still get to Madrid that day, but it sadly left me just over four hours to explore the Aragonese capital ...

... Yesterday she told me I had to clean my room before lunch and I almost peed myself I was so happy. It was me and my 2 host sisters (Maria Pilar, 22 and Ana 25) and she was like "all three of you have to clean your room before you can eat!" and I got so excited because I was officially one of her children, I LOVE IT!! Tonight I'm hanging out with Paco because my parents said I didn't have a curfew durante Pilar. Paco is very sweet but a little dumb-he failed 3 ...

We had a huge drive across to Zaragoza. The landscape changed from a green to an arid kind of desert look. There didn't seem to be much else to see in Zaragoza except for the Basilica de Nuestra Senora del Pilar. Local legend says that an image of the Virgin Mary appeared on top of an alabaster pillar and there you have it - a famous religious relic. People from all over the world come to touch it. I find religious relics ...