Hotel Las Truchas 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 ...

... a caravan of eligible Spanish women are shipped in to meet the local men! Upon reading this, I immediately decided to move to a small town in Aragon; any one will do, as long as the caravan pays a visit there. Or maybe I can convince the caravan to make a stop in Calgary?<br><br>Seeing a number of windmills and vast fields of solar panels as I rode on the bus, I remembered a David Suzuki documentary I saw several months ago, about renewable sources of ...

... short ones. We are on our way to Zaragoza on the west side of Spain. <br><br>We go through farm land, then fruit orchards, we couldn't figure out what they grown, but there are lots of fruit packing plants along the highway. I kept thinking there would be fruit stands somewhere, but they never materialized.<br><br>At lunch time we stopped at a rest area along the highway. It is quite warm, but the clouds are ...

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.

... down the road. The whole group did our washing and our camp looked like a laundry mat, there was a caravan set up where we pitched our tents but they were quick to leave it the morning with 26 people pitching 15 tents and an overland truck, didn't think they like it. Most people jumped in the showers as having not showered for 5days we were hanging out for it. Next day we headed into the median, this was one of the hardest median to find your way around so we needed to get a guide ...

... 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.

... started by spending a long time gazing at Aljaferia Palace, which I had actually already passed several times walking to and from the train station. It was originally built at the Moorish Muslims who ruled here at the dawn of the second Millennium. Zaragoza served as capital to one of the many taifa or petty Islamic kingdoms, that ruled most of the peninsula following the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba. Time for another little tangent. Basically, the ...

28.10.2007 okay I realized I'm being incredibly neglectful with this journal/blog thing (since it's actually both) but I'll try to start writing with more frequency. So last Tuesday...oh god it's been a long time since I've written but last Tuesday I went shopping with my host mom. It was so much fun. We went to a ton of different places and she kept being like, 'I don't like any of this-let's go' and so we'd leave. She had me try on a bunch of things though and it was really cute. I ...

... as the show progressed I gradually became desensitized to the whole event...I´m not sure if that´s how other people feel about it but I certainly realized that it was easier to watch if I didn´t think so much about the bulls being killed and just tried to enjoy the fact that I was having a uniquely Spanish experience. I should warn you that these photos are of events that occurred at the ...