Blogs from Extremadura, Spain, Europe - page 4

Tuesday 24th May Ok, finally started out this morning, brilliant sunshine and heating up nicely as we approached Seville. Temperature outside suggested something like 40degrees C and we were stuck in a traffic jam.. Thats life. Advice for future, try the Southern ring road even if it looks a bit further, probably will be quicker. Made good time to Zafra and found the Aire very easily because it was very well signposted. Other vans around and the Guardia Civil headquarters just round the corner. Didn't go far (just to the supermarket) as it seemed like a long day. Bedded down early. Wed 25th Not too early waking up, slept well but traffic a bit noisy. Walked into the old town which is very pretty and peaceful. Read in the newspaper the other day that there is ... read more

The clocks went forward last night. We had a late breakfast in the hotel and left at about 10am for our leisurely drive down into Southern Spain. We have managed 335 miles today, giving up the journey at 4.45pm. We have travelled from Burgos today through the mountains to our overnight stop at Merida. The dramatic part of the journey took us high up through the clouds. Being a Sunday, roads were very quite. No toll roads either. We stopped just outside Merida in our search for a hotel, and met up with three English bikers from Cheshire who were enroute to Africa. Stayed at the Sayago Hotel. No Wi-Fi tonight but a relaxing stay assured. Got up next morning to find that we had been the only guests in the whole hotel overnight. We will ... read more

Monday 11.1 2010 day 88 Merida We both woke up feeling very cold and sick. Although Merida (Spain) is a world heritage town with lots of roman things including a Dina temple that looks like the one we saw a few days ago in Portugal in faced the whole city look very much like Evora At one point we took a wrong turn and was on an identical turn around that we had done in Evora. There where Roman gladiator rings as well but as we were so tires and sick from the cold night in the room we decided to get out of town after a very quick look around and headed back to Portugal this time to Lisbon as we got closer the traffic was so bad and it just looked like another city ... read more

Excuse any missed punctuation, this program seems to dislike apostrophes Im just now finally getting this blog together after being here in Caceres for a month. I decided it would be much easier to have this point of reference for everyone to follow my trip rather than responding individually to everyone and feeling as if I was missing bits and pieces each time I told the same story to someone new. So here it goes! I arrived here in Caceres the night of September 18th. All fourteen of us spent almost 24 hours travelling from DTW to Amsterdam, then Madrid, and finally to Caceres by bus. It was such a new experience for me. I was getting to know some of the people in my program because we were all together for the entirety of a ... read more

Overnight Stop in Trujillo (Tim and Sue) We have arrived in Trujillo and decided to stay in the Parador there - for those that don't know, this is like staying in a castle that's been turned into a hotel. It's a really nice place and after a couple of nights sleeping on the ferry vibra-bed we're both looking forward to a stationary kip, so-to-speak. All the years Sue has spent living in and travelling to Spain she has never stayed in a parador so she was super excited! After our 'coupley moment' earlier on it's become apparent that I'm suffering from caffeine withdrawal. Upon arrival at Trujillo, it become further apparent that I'm going through Google Maps withdrawal and the visceral horror of not having an always-on internet connection hits me. We're also becoming a bit ... read more