Weather: 26º C Overcast and Sunny Mileage: 210 Km; Total 3,440 kms A short trip today so we planned on 2 stops on the way. The first was Fuente de Piedra and the second was Antequera. Outside of Fuente de Piedra is a lagoon which is Europe’s major nesting area for the Greater Flamingo migrating from Africa. The lagoon is a shallow saltwater body where the birds arrive between February and March to breed. They leave in August when the lagoon dries ...

Weather: 22º C Overcast and Sunny The Alhambra is Spain’s number one attraction and one of Europe’s top sites. It can accommodate up to 7,000 visitors per day and normally reaches this limit. We purchased our entrance tickets before leaving NZ. This also included arranging a time to visit the Nasrid Palaces for 1pm. Tickets to the Alhambra are purchased for the morning session (0830 to 2pm) or afternoon (2-8pm). Once you select which session y...

Weather: 27º C and high cloud (good driving weather) Mileage: 465 Km; Total 3,695 kms For the last 45 minutes of this trip all we saw were olive groves for as far as the eye could see – would have literally been millions of trees. Never seen anything like it. This would even put the pine tree forests through Tokoroa and Putaruru to shame. Apart from that not much to say about today. Billy just had to follow a straight road and access to the hotel...

Weather: 33º C and sunny (not a cloud in the sky) Mileage: 200 Km; Total 3,230 kms Yep the Roosters could not foot it with the ABs; All Blacks 30 beat France 0. We may be travelling but we are being kept up to date with rugby. Got the car out of the garage ok and Anne managed to find Bruce and the car after going back to the apartment to leave behind the key and remote for the garage. The owners also let us know there would be no charge for the garaging...

Weather: 29º C and sunny (not a cloud in the sky) Started the morning off with a reasonably long walk to the Science and Arts buildings. These were a pleasant change from the Old Towns that we have been visiting for most of this trip to date. These buildings are the largest single investments that Valencia has undertaken to date. The buildings are an Hemispheric building resembling a giant eye, a Science building resembling the skeleton of a whale, an Oce...