Cuenca, Spain and Canary Islands

A weekend trip to Cuenca.

A travel blog entry by stevefn
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Pretty town built over a gorge. Every town in this region (castilla la mancha)are going nuts because its a centenary of Don Quixote's creation. Cuenca had an exhibition of dali's paintings/drawings for the book, which was pretty amazing.

Del centro parte una calle hacia el empinado casco antiguo de Cuenca y sigue lloviendo sin parar. Por ser el final nos alegró mucho encontrar una ganga: la Posada de San José, un antiguo monasterio del siglo XVII y colegio después, convertido en hotel rústico ...

It took us over 2 and a half hours to get to Cuenca, not because of any timetabled meanderings, but rather because for some reason the driver insisted upon leaving the Autovia (motorway) at every junction, driving round its roundabout and returning to ...