I’d arranged to meet Sharon at 10:00 and we walked to see the Sagrada Famila. This incredible structure has been under construction for over 125 years, partly under the guidance of Gaudi before he died. The estimated time of completion is still another 13 years ago by which time the building will have recovered its [...]

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I slept quite late – a hangover from Download – and missed breakfast. Instead I grabbed some bread from the “free food” drawer and heated up the tin of beans I’d lugged all the way from Birmingham. Beans on toast in Spain – smashing! I then went for a wander to get my bearings and [...]

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A very rushed day. I woke around 11am and hung my washing out to dry, fed the cats and woke Anni which turned out to be the hardest job of all. We drove to the Post Office to collect a pedometer that Sheilah had kindly mailed me for use on The Walk. Lunch was KFC [...]

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I’ll probably fix this post once I figure out how to speak Spanish but at the moment I’m contending with typing English on a Spanish keyboard with a very unfamiliar layout while my leg goes dead on a badly-designed stool… I will also get the remaining two Donington posts done “when I can”. There is [...]

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