Thursday 3 November 2016

Renovation project - European road trip - Second stop - Burgos and Valladolid, Spain

Renovation project - European road trip - Second stop - Burgos and Valladolid, Spain
After a great night in Bordeaux we are heading over to Valladolid in Spain, we have an Ibis hotel booked which is again on the centre of the city. Once again this is a budget hotel but it does have a private bathroom. The price of this hotel is approx 50 Euros per night.
The drive too Spain is stunning but unfortunately we are following the big storm so the weather is not as nice as we had hoped. It is great too pass through the borders and see a sign for a new country without having to queue up and have our passports ready.
We have used the toll roads on this trip as we have a long way to drive, if you are using the toll roads make sure you have a credit card that is accepted as not all the toll booths are manned and accept cash.
One of the great things on this road trip are the tunnels through the mountains, some can be a 3 or 4 kilometres long and when you come out you enter another amazing valley.
renovation project - driving to Spain
We are passing by Burgos and this is a town that I have looked at many times when planning trips, we have enough time to call in and visit, but it is so cold we do not stay for long, we also do not think it is everything that we thought it would be, but that may be because we were too cold to stay for long. Here are some of the photos that we took. Next time I think we need to spend more time and properly drive around in case we did miss the sights.
Burgos, Spain

Burgos, Spain

Burgos, Spain

Burgos, Spain

Burgos, Spain
We arrive in Valladolid and it is a beautiful city, but we as we arrive we find a giant Carrefour and all we can think of is the amazing cooked chickens that we used to buy in Spain, so we call in and buy one of these for our dinner, the smell is amazing as we drive to the hotel. Not quite the dinner we had planned, but it was delicious with fresh baked bread.
We get a map of the city and go out for a drink in the evening, we do not get to see anywhere near as much as we had planned, and make the decision that we will have to visit again.
Valladolid, Spain

Valladolid, Spain

Valladolid, Spain

4 comments:

  1. Stunning, stunning, stunning! Thanks for the peek in. :)

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    1. you're welcome. I hope you get a chance to visit some day :)

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  2. what a fantastic trip....partly on your recommendation we visited bordeaux this year then into spain, san Sebastian (highly recommended) down to burgos and then a few days in a few coastal places......keep the posts coming perhaps we'll go that bit further another tome.....also think burgos was little more than the cathedral really

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    1. Hi Hope you enjoyed Bordeaux :) we have only visited San sebastian very briefly, but one day we hope to get to spend the day there. I am so glad Burgos is more than we saw, it was so cold on the day we visited we didn't stay long, I had wanted to visit for so long, so glad it has more than we saw

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