Hostal Arenal 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!!!

... I need to overcome.

Zaragoza wasn't all that great, but it was nice to be back in Spanish immersion - I don't think I spoke more than ten words of English in the first seven days of the trip, and even though I spoke a fair bit of English in San Sebastian, that was balanced out by tons of Spanish conversations. Over the years I've come to really enjoy the simple pleasure of conversing in Spanish, and slowly improving my fluency in the most ...

... spires of various lengths with something different on top of each pillar.

The inside is incredible with extremely high ceilings, with paintings on the tops and plaster angels and cherubs all around.

The organ is huge and the choir area is wood chairs and walls with ornate carvings on the wood. The nave is incredible with so many carvings and niches to look at.

Around the corner there is ...

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.

... get Mauritania visas a lot more difficult, the forms were all in French so had to try work out what it said, every other nationality had there info on there passport in English and French but good old New Zealand have Maori so had no idea, after an hour we all filled them out and Gary went to embassy and we were to pick them up next day at 3pm, so he jumped in the taxi the next day to go collect the 28 passports and they wouldn't open the gates so he was told to come again on ...

... mid meeting?? well i suppose variety is the spice of life. Anyway, Madrid... man leaving there was hard, its seems strange but when i left London i didn't go through half the emotions that i felt as i was getting into doing things for the (again) "last" time in Madrid. i suppose its because when i left London for how much i loved to live there i knew that it had a life expectancy, you can do almost anything in that city and we definitely did, but for how much fun it was to ...

... 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.

... Mary ever appeared to Saint James there, or that Saint James ever even visited the spot, or Spain in general really. There are other stories about him involving Spain, most of them seem to stem from the clergy trying to work up Christian fervour during the "holy" wars against the Muslims (he is supposed to have appeared in several battles and slaughtered hundreds of Muslims single handedly, as well as Native Americans when the Spanish began exploring ...

02.10.2007 I had such a wild and crazy night! On Wednesdays our classes end at 2pm and we have "actividades culturales" but today our activity was a play at night so we actually got out at 2. Dan and I went shopping and I bought 2 pairs of cute pants (still on the hunt for cute shirts). After we did some wandering, ate, and went back to my house so I could change into my new clothes. We were supposed to be at the theater at 8:30pm so we left my house at 8, planning on catching ...