Monasterio de Piedra Zaragoza

... in the old town - magnificent! According to the tourist board the first chocolate in Europe was made in Calatayud, and the paintings in one of the churches (San Juan) are by Francisco de Goya. Wow! Unfortunately time constraints didn't allow us to fully explore this lovely city - maybe on our next trip.<br><br>Back to the hotel where we had drinks in the bar, along with some tapas of course, before eating in the hotel ...

... 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>

... Zaragoza is missing something ... it's missing that special something that all Spanish towns seem to have. <br><br>I finished up my meal, and sat around for 10 minutes debating whether or not to have some gelato, which the cafe seemed to do a very good job of, just based on appearance. The gelato lost, because I was feeling like absolute ****, and eating something cold would not have been any good for the chills I was suffering from. <br><br>Back to ...

... 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 has been a tough but very enjoyable day. After a meal of tapas (with the barman and I speaking in French as neither understood each other´s language!) and a comfortable night in Hotel Eslava, I made the most of the buffet breakfast before heading out of this lovely, vibrant town in the direction of Logroño, capital of the La Rioja region. As I rode out of Pamplona I reflected on the last time that I visited the city, in 1975. On that occasion I was arrested at ...

... were luke warm but was great to have a wash. Next proper camp site will be Marrakesh and not to many after there. On the way to the campsite we stopped at the camels and I had a camels ride which was a little scary but great pictures. Everybody in our trip: Everybody doing the 43 weeks from London to Istanbul unless stated Rob - New Zealand Ben &amp; Sarah - Australian Brad - Australia (Getting off in Cameroon) Lene - Norway Heather - Australia Martin - England (Getting off in ...

... mid meeting?? well i suppose variety is the spice of life. Anyway, Madrid... man leaving there was hard, its seems strange but when i left London i didn't go through half the emotions that i felt as i was getting into doing things for the (again) "last" time in Madrid. i suppose its because when i left London for how much i loved to live there i knew that it had a life expectancy, you can do almost anything in that city and we definitely did, but for how much fun it was to ...

... for my mum, and for the rest of my family. Not because I believe in God, but because I believe in hope. I wandered out of the square to the Black Horse English pub and threw back a Heineken before heading back to Zaragoza train station and jumping on the fast train to Madrid (also discovered that train station has comfy red settees you can sit on, it's the little things in life). I declined the complimentary headphones this time, although Charlie Wilsons war ...

9.9.2007 It's Sunday and I need to write in English! I am so completely overwhelmed! I'm not really sure what I am doing here. The town is really cute. It's more of a city than I thought it was. Mi familia is so nice. They are extremely patient, which is wonderful. I'm getting a little homesick and now all I want to do is sleep. Necesito un despertador! They use desperar instead of dormir or maybe it's descansar-yo no se. The food ...