Temp 21 mainly sunny with intermittent cloud We found a café nearby and near the Plaza Mayor for breakfast. We thought it odd that the area was full of police and people who were part of the Red Cross. As it turned out there was a marathon (or possibly half marathon) happening and the runners were going past us and into the Plaza. We are becoming experts at watching marathons with a coffee in one hand and a croissant in the other aren’t we Shelley? ...

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...