Weather report: not a cloud in the sky. High of 18ºC in Segovia and 22ºC in Salamanca. Kms travelled today - 315 Picked up our car this morning and with the help of our GPS system (the voice of Billy Connolly) headed for Segovia; about 1½ hrs north of Madrid. Collecting the car from Avis was a breeze. We had read about all sorts of problems that people have had with rental car companies but we certainly did not experience any of them. We had pr...

Weather: 25 degrees C, sunny (not a cloud) and no wind This morning we headed off to the Palacio Real (Royal Palace). Bruce got a discounted entry. He is definitely worth taking as he now gets these "older person" discounts. Not all places in Spain give these as sometimes they only apply to EU residents or, EU and South American residents. Now back to the palace. We have been to both the Versailles (Paris) and Schönbrunn (Vienna) Palaces and now Palacio Re...

Weather for Madrid today. Sunny and a high of 23 degrees C. Cool overnight at 7. The mornings right up to about 1pm are quite cool then it warms up quickly and lasts until at least 9pm. So, no one queried or commented on yesterdays title. Guess you all know who's quote it was then - well of course it was one of Dali's. We hit the road earlier than yesterday and caught the hop-on hop-off bus for Route 2. This took us to the more modern part of the city. Well a m...

Weather today - 22 degrees C and not a cloud in the sky. Both refreshed from a long sleep we set off to join route 1 of the hop-on hop-off bus trip with the plan to visit both the Reina Sofia and Thyssen museums. Optimistic we were as we only managed the Reina Sofia. This is a museum of modern art predominantly from Spanish artists. The show piece painting of the museum is Picasso's Guernica; an iconic 3m x 7m painting. The reason we ended up spending most the d...

It has now started to feel like a holiday. Early start but everything fell into place. The plane left on time, arrived on time, quick through immigration, minimal queuing time for a taxi and the owners were at the apartment to meet us. The weather was also fine with a high of 18C forecast and sunny conditions for today and the remainder of the week. Had we arrived a week ago we would have experienced snow. Carmen and Manuel are lovely people. They stayed for a w...