Going to Madrid and Barcelona with my mighty Fiat Panda! Adventure travel in Spain
On the evening of Saturday 28 am, Guido Bello and we were in the house of Luke (cap) to decide where to spend the new year and half to reach the goal with determination.
There was no agreement at all between us 4 it on goal and especially the means by which to use as cap and I absolutely do not want to pass these days in town we decided to leave the next morning with the Pandino my mother (who both had to be scrapped the next month) and spend the last few days of the year ... .. Nice Nice as usual but much better than Motta Visconti.
Then it was Guido aggregate and at the end and the indecisissimo Belloni!
So on the morning of 29 I went to take the 3 traveling companions and then we started towards the French Riviera.
Although the Panda had the heating off and use the maximum speed was 90 Km / h stradafacendo half from Nice has turned first in Barcelona and even in Madrid!
Arrived after 12 hours near the border between France and Spain Guido looking at the map had the brilliant idea of "cut" for the Pyrenees instead of continuing on the motorway. Around 3:00 at night after having crossed the small state of Andorra and saw that the streets of this mountain range is not never ended, cold, to warm up we stopped in a mountain village into a room half-empty.
Broken after half an hour and finish the mountain roads, around 6 am on December 30th we stopped in a service where another riscaldatatina after we have all fallen asleep and 4 in our little "car" stationary.
We were awakened around 9 am because of the knock on the part of some people on the window .. and beautiful ... I slept on that front seats looking towards the window we noticed that you have pointed a gun!
It was the Mossos d'Esquadra! We were surrounded by 4 patrols! We have with our backs to the wall! We have been mistaken for Basque terrorists! Incredible!
After more than an hour of careful search we have left to go wrong by taking the keys of the blame for Pandino .. Beautiful!
Telephone call made by the police of the boy who worked in the shop of the service and once again the keys are distributed in the direction of Madrid.
After a short stop at Zaragoza (a city with a beautiful square) and after a fine for Cinturon in Guadalajara we came around at 20.00 so long desired in the Spanish capital!
After a couple of hours we found accommodation in a small tavern near the station of Atocha.
31 dinner in a room only basis of fruit and then around the city to celebrate the end of the year. We have succeeded in all colors.
Bello made from midnight till 2.00 (but below) the numbers circus. During this night happened to everything and more around 8 am I found myself on a train citizens in the company of a girl heading for the Madrid apartment of his extreme periphery.
I almost transferred a couple of days and she was my guide tuiristica staff ..
Madrid is at the center of the Iberian Peninsula for almost 700 mt.di height asl and besides being the seat of Parliament and the Spanish Government, is the principal residence of the monarchy.
La Plaza de Espana, whose center is the statue of Cervantes, is the starting point of the Gran Via, where there are sides to the building and the Torre Espana in Madrid 35 floors.
Lovers of art and is located in Madrid can not fail to visit the Museo del Prado neoclassical offering the opportunity to see many masterpieces of pictorial art, including works by Goya, Velasquez, Murillo, El Greek, Titian and Botticelli.
Not far from the Prado are the Botanic Gardens and National Museum.
After leaving Nuria (the Spanish kind girl) saying that I was departing from his city, I met the 3 Desperados and we spent another 2 days ... bei rather beautiful 2 more nights.
On the morning of 4 up on Pandino, which had remained stationary on a street Losca throughout our stay in Madrid, we took the way back stop by for a night in Barcelona (a city in which we are all already been several times). This break could not miss since he lives in this city for some 'years of our dear friend.
We spent a lovely evening in the company of Skin that has graciously hosted us in her tiny apartment. The next morning we found an unpleasant surprise .. There had been lifted a glass of the Panda! But not broken off and leaning on the back seat, this rubarci for a bottle of water! Incrdibile! After "stoppered" the hole with a bag of trash and some 'tape we are on the long (because of limited speed) way back to our village.