Getting ready
2018年9月10日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
No problems with the journey , we even managed to arrived in Madrid airport with all our bags. We stopped in el Escorial for lunch and looked at the monastery/palace there. It's a huge, huge, buildingもっと詳しく
Segovia
2018年9月11日, スペイン ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
We had a long lie in this morning and then spent the day exploring Segovia, which is a really nice compact city with lots of great buildings to see. It's greatest fame is the Roman aqueduct which wasもっと詳しく
Moving on to Avila
2018年9月12日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We left Segovia this morning and took a detour to see a 15C castle an hour away in Coca. It was built in 1478 by an archbishop using Arab craftsmen and so much of it is Mudejar style with geometricもっと詳しく
Food
2018年9月13日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
We have been eating far too much in our first few days, wanting to try the local specialties. Last night's dinner was spectacular. We ate at a restaurant on a terrace just outside the walls lit up byもっと詳しく
Avila
2018年9月13日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Avila is worth the visit for its spectacular walls. Built in 1098 straight after the reconquest from the Muslims, to protect the city the walls totally enclose the whole city and are truly unique. Weもっと詳しく
Avila to salamanca
2018年9月14日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We had a gentle morning in Avila and then set off for Salamanca. It's just a hour and a half away and the roads, as they have all been, were very good and empty of traffic. We have rented an apartmentもっと詳しく
Salamanca
2018年9月15日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We have 2 full days in Salamanca so we decided to split our sightseeing into gentle bouts. This morning we crossed the Roman bridge into the centre of Salamanca and visited various buildings of theもっと詳しく
Saturday afternoon
2018年9月15日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
After lunch we took a break from sightseeing to track the Barnet football and GB Davis cup tennis. Not a good idea. When both matches were at 1 - 1 after tense play we went back into Salamanca toもっと詳しく
Salamanca Sunday
2018年9月16日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Visit this morning to the museum of art nouveau and Art Deco which is housed in a fabulous art nouveau palace overlooking the river. It was built by a wealthy industrialist as his home which he filledもっと詳しく
Salamanca to Valladolid
2018年9月17日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
On the way to Valladolid we made a couple of detours, the first to see another castle which we did not expect to be open - but it was. Castillo la Mota was originally built in the 12C by the Moors butもっと詳しく
Palencia - on the way to Burgos
2018年9月18日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
It turns out that just around the corner from our hotel in Valladolid is the best churreria in town, so churros and chocolate for breakfast was necessary. We were then going on the Burgos but went toもっと詳しく
On to Burgos
2018年9月18日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
After really enjoying Palencia cathedral we went to find our new apartment in Burgos, which was good and right next to the cathedral. So many cathedrals, maybe we should called this trip "cathedralsもっと詳しく
Seeing the sights in Burgos
2018年9月19日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Another cathedral - the cathedral in Burgos really does dominate the town so we started off there this morning. It is enormous, started in the 12C and added to over the centuries. It has some goodもっと詳しく
A trip 1.3 million years into the past
2018年9月20日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Woke this morning to thick fog, with even the spires of the cathedral barely visible. Thankfully it dispersed as soon as the sun came up and the day was clear and hot as usual. We drove out of town toもっと詳しく
Camino de Santiago
2018年9月20日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
When we were in Segovia the road outside our hotel had brass scallop shells embedded in it, which are the symbol of the pilgrims taking the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela. The story isもっと詳しく
Rioja
2018年9月21日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Fòr most of this trip we have been travelling through brown flat countryside- the massive high Spanish plain - that is used mainly for growing wheat, now harvested. Also mile upon mile of sunflowersもっと詳しく
Bodega visits
2018年9月22日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
On our way into Laguardia we stopped to see the winery of Marques de Riscal, which is one of the biggest and most famous Rioja names. The estate is huge and I guess hadn't suffered much from Spain'sもっと詳しく
laguardia
2018年9月22日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
We spent the morning wandering the narrow medieval streets of Laguardia, and walking around the walls. The town is so small and confined to a narrow hilltop that it only takes 20 or 30 minutes to walkもっと詳しく
laguardia archaeology
2018年9月22日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
In the afternoon we visited two sites just outside of Laguardia. The first was the remains of a celticiberian settlement dating from 1400 BC to 400 BC. Although there are only the low remains of wallsもっと詳しく
Granny meets the dinosaurs!
2018年9月23日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
120 million years ago the plain south of Rioja was a flat swampy wetland, home to many herbivore dinosaurs and so also the carnivore raptors. As these dinosaurs walked in the mud , it dried, wasもっと詳しく
Final day of road trip
2018年9月24日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We left LaGuardia this morning for a longish drive to Bilbao. Our first stop was at a viewpoint up the mountain but it was in the clouds and drizzling so we didn't get much view. So far this trip weもっと詳しく
Guggenheim museum
2018年9月25日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
This spectacular building sits on the river front in the heart of Bilbao and was opened in 1997 to a Frank Gehry design, and is probably the reason most people come to Bilbao. We spent all morningもっと詳しく






























































































































