Goya 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!!!

... basement is huge, feeling like a cellar in a castle. A number of excursions can be booked from the hostel, and it seems like they also put on a number of activities. But given that it's the peak tourist season, and it's completely dead ... I can't imagine it lasting too long. I think part of the problem is that there isn't much going on in Zaragoza, though it appears that there are numerous adventure-type day trips that can be done nearby.

Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain and Canary Islands pwong

... silver coffin or tomb, but it isn’t stated whose it is.

At the end of the church there is the Virgin Mary chapel. It is like a church within a church. We enjoyed our time inside looking at the architect, the wooden doors and the paintings, just a few pictures to look at. It was nice and cool inside.

We take a hotel for the night as it is now 35+ degrees. We will have a look around again tomorrow.

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 lucky enough they didn't find anything as you'd imagine everybody bought a lot of alcohol and food in Ceuta which is all stored out of sight. We were all clear and heading into Morocco passing all other vehicles' been checked over with what you would call junk, but this is all sold in the market. Having taken longer at the border than anticipated instead of the original plan of heading to Tangier we headed to Tetouan where we stayed for 1night and had the next morning to ...

... you care about, with who you have had so many great times, that get on planes to come and see you (in Madrid/New York/Argentina/New Zealand/Australia/France) that go out of their way to get you gifts, that stand by you, that accept you and never judge you, well when you have an abundance of these people that are in the very place that you are leaving well its hard... but nothing lasts forever i guess and even if when i get back and some of them are not there, they all ...

... 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 ...

... these things called "Interpenias" that are basically huge parties outside. There are probably a hundred thousand people there and it's under a series of tents. There's music and drinking and it's REALLY dirty. I wore tennis shoes and the next day they were black. I met some really cool guys and I bonded with this one boy named Fernando. (For the record, it's not that we don't try to meet girls but girls are less willing to make friends, which is understandable ...

... and the only exposed piece was in a nook in the wall with a place to kneel. The piece was a little smaller than my face and very very smooth and worn. It wasn't alabaster colour though. It was darker. A few people came along, knelt down, gave the stone a quick stroke or kissed it then made the sign of the cross. Some said a little prayer then went. I went over and decided to touch it rather than kiss it. You never know ...