Hotel Rey Fernando II de Aragon 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 ...

... civil war.<br><br>I walked back through the plaza towards the hostel, and regretted not staying in San Sebastian another night. Zaragoza wasn't that great, but I always maintain that visiting a place you don't like is a valuable experience, because it helps you refine your tastes and makes the good places seem even better. And besides, if you never went, how would you know it wasn't any good?<br><br>Back at the hostel, one of the bunkmates was a ...

... us from the sun. When it comes out, it is very hot.<br><br>We are in cattle and pig country, we sure can smell it all along. We do have the air on open windows wide! We stopped at a gas station to get a slurpee, it was closed so had to walk across the highway to the station there to get a couple of pop. No slurpees here! We see a couple of huge statues of bull cows on hill tops and interesting signs ...

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.

... had to tell her what we wanted to be on if we hadn't as she had no idea we might have been in trouble. She was unable to prescribe me arthritis drugs as wasn't my doctor, so have gone with out at the moment and all been well with the hot weather. Ian has also been guaranteed the same job as last year in Spalding in the harvest so that is good for our return back to the UK at the end of June, it was very lucky as John normally employs 3 Kiwis and this year he is only employing Ian ...

... your own choice, its ****ing hard. some people say that school is the best days of your life (and that may have been the case for our parents, or grandparents) but now i really do find it hard to see the logic in that, i mean at school you have got no money, hardly any freedom, you know ***** aside from you hate being at school, your body and hormones are all over the place and you are stuck in a classroom of kids where your world is defined by how hard you are, if you are ...

... 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.

... vision of the Virgin Mary on the spot the church was built. Apparently they have a pillar inside that marks the exact spot she appeared on. As a rule I tend to avoid going into religious buildings, partly out of respect for the worshippers, partly because they sometimes have admission fees. However I decided that the exact spot the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared on was probably worth a look, and admission was free. Of course there is no actual evidence the ...

... of the S21 prison in Cambodia and all in all it certainly has character. We try to go to sleep to the sound of the Village People in the room next door drinking, shouting and (clearly) showing off that they have a TV in their room. In the morning, I´m in the shower when Virg fuses the electricity in the whole building by switching a light on. We dress by torchlight, bringing back memories of Laos. A&amp;Vx

After a few days in Madrid, we headed out into the unknown. As we had a few days to kill before meeting my brother and his family in Barcelona, we picked a town about half way in between. This town was Zaragoza. This just goes to show you that sometimes you just need to throw out the good old LP and do things the old fashioned way. By dumb luck. Zaragoza is a fantastic place. It´s a city of ...