Eguzki Lore Sallent de Gallego - Formigal

... pretty exact since street names aren’t always useful when we are on all these unnamed roads in the middle of nowhere. GPS coordinates are pretty failsafe unless…well this is my fault…one has to make sure they put the decimal point in the right place…oops! Luckily Chris has a wicked sense of humor and thinks I’m cute when I’m flustered otherwise this could have gotten ugly. We ended up at 0.4sumthing West instead of 4 ...

... 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!!!

... Spain was cited as being one of the world leaders in this regard, as there are a number of windy regions, and the sun seemingly never stops shining in most of the country.

This made me wonder - why haven't scientists found a way to harness Spain's greatest resource, its countless beautiful women? Laugh all you want, but humankind needs to change its approach to energy consumption, so we need to think outside the box. Perhaps the Spanish ...

... the way for Canada, there is a squiggly over the n.

The GPS won’t accept the address I had for a campground so when we get to Zaragoza so we decide to go into the town. We see 4 spires, it is either a church or a mosque, I think the first. Lucky choice of turn-offs as we end up right at the Church.

We find a parking spot and walk back across the river to look at the beautiful church ...

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.

... were luke warm but was great to have a wash. Next proper camp site will be Marrakesh and not to many after there. On the way to the campsite we stopped at the camels and I had a camels ride which was a little scary but great pictures. Everybody in our trip: Everybody doing the 43 weeks from London to Istanbul unless stated Rob - New Zealand Ben & Sarah - Australian Brad - Australia (Getting off in Cameroon) Lene - Norway Heather - Australia Martin - England (Getting off in ...

... up for getting right amongst it with my second family, that of Elena, that treat me with such generosity, warmth, kindness and love its hard not to find it overwhelming at times and also later the dreading big 30th party with the other tribe that make Zaragoza such a joy to be here, all of Elena's friends, whom again are so great to be with its seems stupid to affiliate them with the prefix Elena when i say friends. Top top people... really open, friendly and genuine, in ...

We said goodbye to our wonderful host Sylvia in Guadalahara. The morning light and warmth felt like late May back home. We took to the A2/E90 heading NE towards Zaragoza. One hour later we turned off the highway to visit an old Roman fort on the top of a mountain with a spectacular view, Mendinacellini. Structures ...

... este pueblo nuevo que no quieren recordar o hablar de lo que pasó, unos por miedo y otros por vergüenza. Mi propio suegro fue asesinado al haber sido traicionado por su propio hermano facista. Esta tragedia hay que contarla, no debe ser escondida, y sobrevivimos para que el mundo supiera la verdad." Caminábamos sobre las ruinas del pueblo mientras me contaba éstas y otras historias más. Un pueblo fantasma lleno de ellos, vivos y muertos.

... originally Jewish Synagoges and converted, cathedrals, roman ruins, palaces, both roman and Islamic. So much to see, the only draw back is that damn heat!!! The Aljaferia Palace was originally built by Islamic leaders, and still shows Islamic style architecture. It was taken over and expanded by the catholic Alfonso I, and from there expanded further by new Kings and Queens of the county. Another of my favourite sights was the ruins of the Roman Theatre, which was ...