Hotel Silken Zentro 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, Boštjan is a very good driver, but my nerves are not as good as I thought.

With the help of a security guard at a bank in one of the ...

... double 'R's, or the Spanish lisp could cause a crystal to resonate, releasing unimaginable quantities of energy? The collective smiles of Spanish senoritas must generate at least 1000x the solar energy that the sun releases. And could all that collective sweetness somehow be synthesized into vast amounts of plant food, allowing all of Earth's citizens to be properly fed? It is my hope that one day, my groundbreaking ideas will earn a Nobel prize ...

... 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.

Thought it was about time we wrote a blog about our trip as many of you wont be on facebook and be able to see all the photos. So a brief overview of the last few weeks of our month in Spain and Portugal and the first couple of weeks in Morocco. We decided we would do the West Africa trip as we enjoyed Nairobi to Cape Town over Christmas/New Year. We got talking to our driver of the trip (Chris) and he was doing the trip from London to Turkey for 43 weeks so we decided to a portion ...

... city. i dare you to just for once over look Barcelona and the costa del crime and head to the cap slap bang in the middle on the peninsular and just let yourself get lost, do El Prado, go to El Retiro, walk around Sol, Fuencarral and Gran Via but most importantly go out for an evening heading away from the touristy Huertas and more towards Malasaña, Chueca, Conde Duque, Lavapies, La Latina (on a Sunday you will be blown away) but not getting wasted before 11 and actually ...

... 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.

... Iberian peninsula. I could go on, but I think we've had enough for one day. Anyway, the Muslims were driven South by the Iberian Christian kingdoms and Zaragoza became the capital of one of the most powerful- Aragon, whose empire at one point included Sicily, the Balearic isles, Malta and parts of modern Greece (not that anyone cares, I know I don't particularly). Anyway, the castle is quite amazing and is now the seat of the Aragonese parliament- I know I ...

I took the night train from Paris to Madrid and then met up with Hector...we took a bus to his home town of Zaragoza. I am staying in his childhood home tonight and tomorrow night. Tomorrow day I am going to the World Expo that is here while he goes to participate in a triathlon (I would have ...

On the way to pampalona for san fermin, We come up to this town, with one of the most amazing churches I've seen in my life. WoW Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar. So i left baRCElona on the scenic road to pampalona for the running of the bulls, been stopin at some cathedrals on the way checked out a 11th century buddest place yesterday on the top of a mountain takes a gonadola to go up, today checked out ...