Today is 10 August 2011. The last email I sent was on 14 July from San Sebastian in Spain, so I have had a bit of a break.
There have been several reasons for that. Firstly, our wifi access has been intermittent at best - something we have found to be very annoying because (as you know) we are travelling without bookings. Most hotels and gites will advertise that they provide wifi, but when you actually get there, the wifi is often in someone else's room or apartment and not in yours! Or there is some other weird arrangement for internet access.
Secondly, I haven't have a table and chair to work on and I'm too old, and my back is too sore to sit on a bed or prop in McDonalds for the hours it takes me to compose these emails.
Thirdly, I just got a bit sick of sitting at the computer every night and needed to spend some times with my books.
And the fourth reason - for the first time in 11 weeks we have had English language TV. Paul was always able to watch news and sports programs in French and Spanish, but for me it was just "annoying babble". For the past three weeks we have had all of the English speaking programs from Great Britain and it has been a lovely break for me. In addition, I've read five or six novels. So we haven't done a lot of anything in the past three weeks or so except watch TV and read - and of course eat and drink and walk around interesting historical places.
Spain was hot and exhausting. We are tired. We've been away from home for 13 weeks. We have moved constantly, every two or three nights for a month. We drove thousands of kilometres. We drove all the way down the east coast to the bottom - then all the way through the centre to the top. We've seen some of the most beautiful buildings in the world and some of the most brutal terrain. If that was Spain - we've done it! Would we return? Yes, but only to the north - to Barcelona and across to Segovia and the Rioja wine trail.
So I've had my rest now and we both feel a bit more chipper - ready for the final 7 weeks of our trip.
Spain was hot and exhausting. We are tired. We've been away from home for 13 weeks. We have moved constantly, every two or three nights for a month. We drove thousands of kilometres. We drove all the way down the east coast to the bottom - then all the way through the centre to the top. We've seen some of the most beautiful buildings in the world and some of the most brutal terrain. If that was Spain - we've done it! Would we return? Yes, but only to the north - to Barcelona and across to Segovia and the Rioja wine trail.
So I've had my rest now and we both feel a bit more chipper - ready for the final 7 weeks of our trip.
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