Friday 8 April 10-26C This morning we went to Toledo, pronounced Tol-ay-do, which is an old walled city above the Tagus river and was made famous in El Greco's painting.It's like a great open air museum of Spanish history and art.Toledo is in La Mancha and has a population of 82,000.It's main produce is wheat, olive oil and wine.El Greco (his real name is Domenico el Achocor (spelling not correct)) lived half his life in Toledo arriving in 1877. He was comm...

Thursday 7 April 8-26C Sunny Started early again this morning….oh well 8.30 , which is early enough.Today we are going to Cordoba which is perhaps Spain's most Moorish city with a great mosque, the Mezquita(the Cathedral), one if Islam's most important pieces of architecture outside the Arab world.It has architectural grandeur that is jaw dropping.We walked around that for about 30 minutes and then went back into the street where we enjoyed looking at th...

Wednesday 6 April 14-29C Sunny Wake up call at 6.30 again, groan.I asked mum if she enjoyed her flamenco night and she said it was just okay but other people who went loved it.Horses for courses l guess.We visited La Alhambra, a palace in Granada, built atop a mountain, famous for all the decorative work inside the building.It reminded me of lacework at restored and apparently this is quite a famous statue too and may people go there just to see the lions....

Tuesday 5 April Cool and cloudy We had to be up at 6.30 this morning and ready to leave at 8.After spending yesterday in bedl feel only slightly better.Mum's bought me some cough medicine and nose drops.Slept on the bus on the way to the Tia Pepe winery in the Jerez region where they make and import sherry.The soil is of clay so it's quite white but it gives the sherry that special taste.Had a guided tour of the winery and then some sherry tasting.I don't d...

Monday 4 April 14 - 20C Cloudy, rain Woke up this morning after a pretty restless night.Mum went down for breaky and brought some back for me but l don't feel much like eating.I'll get dressed and go find a chemist to buy some cough medicine ect.Mum has gone on the sightseeing tour so l hope she finds it interesting.I didn't end up finding a chemist as l stayed in bed all day.Mum came back around 2pm and we had a bite to eat.I think she enjoyed the tour ar...