Wednesday 23rd November 2011
It only seems like yesterday that we arrived in Spain and here we are homeward bound. We settled last night in the hotel Real Monasterio de San Zoilo in Carrion de Los Condes which sits on the El Camino route to Santiago de Compostela. Our boat does not leave until tomorrow evening from Santander so we are heading for an old favourite of ours, the parador at Cervera de Pisguera up in the Cantabrian mountains. It is only 50 miles from here so we can leave Carrion de Los Condes at lunchtime and make our way slowly on the back roads into the hills.
Looking forward to getting back home and catching up with the gossip, if any.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Hola !! Que Tal ?
After a manic couple of weeks working to cover for someone's illness I have finally managed to get away with my lovely Gina. We got Brittany ferry, Cap Finnisterre, from Portsmouth on Sunday night and arrived in Bilbao, Spain this morning.
We had prebooked a nice hotel, the parador at Lerma, and I am now busy typing this blog overlooking the fields below our fantastic room in the old 16th Century Ducal palce in the old Plaza Major which, we ae told, is to be transformed by 7.30 this evening in to a local market - something that has pleased Gina no end. She is busy now trying to find someone that she hasn't already bought a Chritmas present for in order to give her a valid excuse to go forth and spend.
We should reach Talavera de la Reina (about 100kms south west of Madrid) by tomorrow afternoon and here we will spend a good few days with friends who have invited us to the christening of their newborn baby boy. Last time we came over for their daughter's christening we ended up being Godparents and I had to give a speech in church - all unbeknown to us until we actually got into the church !
Looking forward to the break
We had prebooked a nice hotel, the parador at Lerma, and I am now busy typing this blog overlooking the fields below our fantastic room in the old 16th Century Ducal palce in the old Plaza Major which, we ae told, is to be transformed by 7.30 this evening in to a local market - something that has pleased Gina no end. She is busy now trying to find someone that she hasn't already bought a Chritmas present for in order to give her a valid excuse to go forth and spend.
We should reach Talavera de la Reina (about 100kms south west of Madrid) by tomorrow afternoon and here we will spend a good few days with friends who have invited us to the christening of their newborn baby boy. Last time we came over for their daughter's christening we ended up being Godparents and I had to give a speech in church - all unbeknown to us until we actually got into the church !
Looking forward to the break
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