Hotel Nueva Tierrallana
Travel Blogs from Daimiel
Chasing Dragons, I Mean, Windmills
... fierce dragons! We enjoyed the beautiful view from the top of the hill where we could stand next to the old windmills and look out into the distance and see modern wind energy windmills! We also had a delicious snack of "country food" at the bottom of the hill before driving off into the sunset in our red volvo. Your Dragon Chasing Adventurers, Katherine, Zack, Ginger and ...
Cordoba and Mercanto Medieval
... and fountains galore. The roads narrowed and twisted as we entered the old town and worked our way down near the riverside to the area of the famed “Mesquita”. This is a huge 8th C mosque complex, indeed the biggest in the western Islamic world. As if this amazing complex of hundreds of columns and arches is not interesting enough, it has been partially reconstructed in the 13th and 14th C as a Christian Cathedral ...
Tilting at Consuegra
... wifi, but it is clean and has all necessary showers and electric hook-ups, and is very convenient to the town. We will tour by bike tomorrow, and dutifully report….
By the way, as I write, Pat is attempting to pan-fry a frozen pizza. I’ll let you know how it turns out. We have a bottle of 2.50 euro Spanish wine which might help. As she says, we are saving enough on the cost of wine to pay for the cost of the ...
Windmills
Always behind on the blog! Need to come back and update on our weekend to Sevilla and Cordoba, but that will have to wait.
Today was windmill day. As part of the engineering program, we visited both some new and old windmills in the area. Spain is the 5th largest producer of energy from wind in the world, which is saying something since the country's ...
Friday - Around town this week
The last four days after returning from Portugal have been relatively quiet around Ciudad Real. Here´s a brief summary:
Tuesday - Lots of laundry. Met Dad for lunch. Mom chatted with Cecilia, Paco´s wife, for a while, and then we all went down for some serious computer time, when Mom did the Portugal update. My computer is still shot, so I only have access here at the university or sometimes if I find ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking