Hotel Zenit Don Yo Zaragoza

... streets and some clear and sane mind, we found a camping site to park our RV in spend a night....<br><br>I found Zaragoza very quiet town. It's got a big cathedral and a square in front of it, statue of Goya and few other nice things.<br><br>But at night it's completely different. Lots of people on the streets, bars start filling at 7 p.m. and are full until 3 a.m. So, for us it was - Party time!!!<br>

... br>Zaragoza is ... hot - well over 30 degrees! Luckily, there is a fair bit of shade in the old town, so I tried to stay relatively cool as I made it over to the hostel. There was a bit of a wait to check in, as there was a shift change taking place. I dumped off my bag, and was off to sightsee. Zaragoza is famous for La Basilica de Nuestra Senora del Pilar, a massive edifice looking over an even more massive plaza. Unfortunately, Zaragoza didn't seem ...

... silver coffin or tomb, but it isn&#8217;t stated whose it is.<br><br>At the end of the church there is the Virgin Mary chapel. It is like a church within a church. We enjoyed our time inside looking at the architect, the wooden doors and the paintings, just a few pictures to look at. It was nice and cool inside.<br><br>We take a hotel for the night as it is now 35+ degrees. We will have a look around again tomorrow.

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.

... this trip from Gibraltar to Cameroon for 13weeks. The trip prices normally includes a flight from London to Gibraltar but we decided to travel through Spain and Portugal for 4 weeks before hand as made sense as didn't want to get a job for 1month with the current situation in the UK. So we flew back from Cape Town on the 1st February not really wanting to come back to the freezing cold. We had trouble landing as this was the week London had all the snow so we had to circle in the ...

... 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 ...

We said goodbye to our wonderful host Sylvia in Guadalahara. The morning light and warmth felt like late May back home. We took to the A2/E90 heading NE towards Zaragoza. One hour later we turned off the highway to visit an old Roman fort on the top of a mountain with a spectacular view, Mendinacellini. Structures ...

... have said that without delving into Medieval history but I just got a little carried away and I can't be bothered to delete all that now I've written it. I then went down to the wonderfully painted Bull fighting arena, again closed for the season, and the square next to it that apparently has quite a bloody history. The French attacked the city in 1808 and a group of local women picked up their knives and slaughtered a group of French cavalry in the ...

... accommodation she even makes a few friends as helpful folk bombard us with directions. Finally we settle on an historic (old) Posada (sort of Spanish Pension type thing). The reception fills with a multi-ethnic, though slightly South American-biased group of construction workers, collectively bringing to mind, for some reason, The Village People. Virg tries to negotiate with the recalcitrant bloke behind ...

Zaragoza is really just a nice little town that we decided to stop in because it was half-way from Madrid to Barcelona. They´ve done a really nice job of meshing Roman ruins, impressive cathedrals and old Renaissance buildings together with new modern architecture and fountains. That´s probably the most notable and unique aspect to the city. The large cathedral was really simple and elegant inside. It wasn´t nearly as gaudy as a lot of the ...