Spain 10 - Our last port of call the lovely city of Burgos and its amazing cathedral
September 24th 2013 Our holiday is nearing an end. We woke early and said goodbye to our own toilet. It was dark at 7 in Spain – very different to Portugal or back home. We drove through a barren landscape full of dead sunflower plants again. We noticed that there was some building work albeit slow on a new railway line. We guessed funded by European money and would eventually link by high speed London to Par
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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more 
