Hotel Inca 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 ...

... be moving to Quebec for work, in case she ever wanted to visit Western Canada. I know what you all are thinking - I'm such a proud Canadian patriot, wanting to show foreigners my beautiful country! <br><br>But seriously, there aren't enough Spanish women in Canada, so anything I can do to make them comfortable here and encourage more of them to visit, would definitely be a very good thing. I do this not for my own benefit; I do this for the greater ...

June 14, Sunday<br><br>I think I lost a day somewhere along the line. Anyway we left this morning after a long wait for the woman to come at 10, she was late, as the elderly man on the reception did not know how to take a credit card payment. So much for being ready to leave 1 hour before our scheduled time, we left late.<br><br>We are on toll highways to get us to and around Barcelona. They are pretty cheap ...

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.

... otherwise we would get lost it wasn't expensive only 1euro each so worth the money. So 26people headed off to the local sites felt like we were in a tour group, first we went to the ceramics factory, which had young boys as apprentices next off to the median where we learnt a little history of the town and headed into the centre where the alley ways were filled with horses and donkeys transporting goods, men weaving carpets in the middle of alley and children scattered around, we ...

... whole night and you will experience a night life unseen in England, there is no fighting, no presence of danger, no divides of the cool/trendy/beautiful/young/straight/ga y/freaky its just everyone thrown in this big mixing pot which you imagine that it would just be waiting to kick off, like a friday night last orders in London/Nottingham or Ilkeston but no it really is just people out to have a good time, mingling, dancing, laughing, on the pull, getting drunk, taking ...

... 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.

... entering the city. I instantly decided that if I ever made a list of women I'd travel back in time to sleep with, she'd be on it- it's not something I ever plan on doing, but still. I walked round the city for a bit before coming to the Plaza De Pilar, a truly amazing square on the banks of the river. In addition to several fountains and some Roman ruins, there is the massive Cathedral Des Pilar. According to legend, St James, one of Christ's apostles, had ...

... at 7:30 and including cena and listening to some real Spanish music (courtesy of my host sister-making sure I avoid cotre music) we talked and were together until 11:30. It was absolutely wonderful! I'm already understanding so much Spanish and my speaking isn't great but when I open my mouth my whole family drops what they're doing to listen and to help. It's awesome. Okay bed time. Peace.

... It was fun though. While travelling you tend to meet other travellers, especially if you don´t speak the language. So for me this week has been amazing as I have spent so much time talking to locals and learning all about their lives, and about Spain. I have also learned some Spanish words, though we aren´t supposed to speak Spanish...most of them not being useful in normal conversations. Though you would be surprised how many times you can say asqueroso in a week!