On the road again! This time in our cool teal Citron hatchback off we go for the next 5 weeks exploring Spain! Well 4 weeks in this car – no idea what car we will get for the last week as you can only rent cars for 28 days at a time… Vamos! It was a pleasant 5 hour or so drive to Tudela, which was our destination. How did I pick this town? Well, it had a Marriott hotel, it was within the 4 hour (sort of) time range that Andrew wanted to drive, and within an hour were some towns to visit such as Pamplona which we could visit easily. We are going to be spending 3 nights in Tudela, which is also something Andrew asked for – not one night here, one night there as he is the luggage valet in this relationship! So there were two ways of driving there – toll roads or not. We chose the not, until we were forced onto the toll road into Tudela. Sometimes land gets in the way! So leaving the coast we saw beautiful mountains which are called the Montserrat Mountain Range. Very different looking from what we have in Canada/USA. Once we had gone along the side of them we dropped down into what Andrew called the “area around Kelowna” and then onto what we would call rolling prairies which totally surprised us! Lots of corn and wheat being grown! At that time we found the car getting a bit warm inside so I looked at the temperature and it was 35 degrees outside! Yikes! More AC is called for! After we past Huesca, more and more fields were upon us however some started becoming wine vineyards too – we were entering wine country! The temperature outside also dropped to 31 degrees – phew! Now on the tollway my views out the window changed and it became a straight shot to Tudela with one deviation – we got off at a rest stop named Tudela by mistake. The only item of note, which I did not take a picture of unfortunately, is they must have problems with the accessible parking as there was one HUGE wheelchair sign – biggest I have ever seen – about 3 or 4 metres by 3 or 4 metres in front of the building. Really stuck out and looked very funny! Now back on the speedway at 120 km/h we get to the correct exit and how does the exit work? How do you pay the toll? Thank goodness no one was behind us as it too a bit to figure out! Andrew needs to drive in Eastern USA more where there are more toll ways… or read Spanish OR listen to the navigator and have patience 🙂 We eventually got to our hotel – AC Hotel Ciudad de Tudela – which is an old hotel that has been remodeled in the middle of the town. It is really beautiful! We were upgraded to a room with a terrace and it is lovely. We went for a short walk after arriving and had dinner on our terrace and called it at night – we shall see what tomorrow brings us!
