Husa Royal 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 ...

... up on the foot of some guy's bed. I bounced off that bed, and stumbled backwards against my own bunk bed. The whole exchange sounded something like this:<br><br>Me: "Ow! $%^#! Ow! Sorry!"<br>Guy in the bed: "What the &amp;*%$?"<br>Me: "$%^#! Sorry! %^$&amp;! Ow! $%^@! Ow!"<br><br>I now know the pain and shame that Mary feels on a regular basis, and vow not to make fun of any more of her Mary Moments ... for a whole week ... <br><br>Couldn't find any ...

... spires of various lengths with something different on top of each pillar.<br><br>The inside is incredible with extremely high ceilings, with paintings on the tops and plaster angels and cherubs all around.<br><br>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.<br><br>Around the corner there is ...

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.

... for our first bush camp, the reason we were heading there was the Roman Ruins built in 200-300 AD which we spent 3hours at the following day. We then headed to Fes, once again we stoped at the Marjane, we thought wed seen the end of it since Rabat but once again we used the really clean facilities and then headed off to find camp which was suppose to be 5 minutes away but took 30 minutes and finally stoping at a petrol station for directions it ended up been only a couple of ...

... NYC in that statement "the city that never sleeps" maybe in times square but you try and find a bar a 3 in the morning and lets see how far you get... i stand to prove corrected on that) museums, the longest and warmest summers, the forever cristal blue sky, and most importantly the spirit, i know it sounds like ***** and i even got mugged there one night but just being out on the street you get a feeling for what the people are all about and they more than anything make ...

... 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.

... 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 ...

... she left. They told me where to go and where NOT to go and stupid things I should avoid-like bringing lots of **** with me when I go out because if people know I'm American I will get robbed. There was a lot of other random things too. And we talked about my curfew, which is supposed to be midnight and I asked, "es temprano en Zaragoza, no?" and they both laughed and said "si, si es muy muy ...

... to run from the ladle. All the while, a ritual incantation is declaimed, invoking owls, witches, demons, dwarves and so forth, and the 'Flames of Purgatory', before the drink is consumed". It was amazing, as Jez lifted the ladle there was a column of blue fire pouring down, while the incantation was being read. I fear some of the Spaniards were a bit surprised by some of the Anglos laughing at the vocabularly of what was read, it is supposed to be a solemn ...