Leon

From Burgos, we travelled west to the city of Leon. 

Gaudi's Casa de los Botines.

Farmers market.

Santa Maria de Leon Cathedral.

ñam! ñam!

Burgos

Travelling a couple of hours west on the train, we reached our next destination and home of morcilla, Burgos. A buzzing little place that is the current gastronomic capital of Spain. Its definitely worth a day visit.

Situated North of Madrid and is underrated in our opinion.

It's a very historic city and home to the first Europeans, which lived in the area 800,000 years ago.

Gothic Cathedral.

The whole complex is a UNESCO world heritage site.

The walk up to Castillo de Burgos. Well out of breath...

...but was worth it for the view.

Monument to El Cid.

So Cid statue in the city centre.

Hmm... looks a bit like Blighty, doesn't it?

Zaragoza

We spent the week in Zaragoza for Fiestas del Pilar. Amazing place well worth a city break visit.

The streets are lined with hundreds of thousands of people (mostly in traditional dress) queuing to bring flowers to the Virgin in Plaza del Pilar.

A huge pyramid structure quickly fills with flowers that remain there for the duration of the festival.

Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar.

We also had a special visitor... Nadim! Here we are, looking sexy in our festival scarves.

This is the ancient Muslim palace Aljaferia.

Beautiful interiors, with Islamic and Spanish influence. Probably best to do a guided tour as I can't really tell you much more about it.

Here we are having a song and dance inside.

Pablo Serrano Museum of Contemporary Art.

There was cool exhibition of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American design.

It also has impressive views off the city from the rooftop.

Took a photo of this on the roundabout - it looks pretty ancient.

Thanks for coming to see us Nads. Stay classy.

Palamós

Palamós is about a thirty minute drive away from Palafrugell and we spent a nice afternoon walking around the old town.

The main church in the old town, Santa Maria del Mar

Everyones favourite taberna.

The Port

Begur

Begur is about 10km from Palafrugell and we spent an afternoon walking around this beautiful little town up in the hills. Thanks to our friends Duncs and Pabs for the recommendation.

Lots of winding uphill roads and interesting old houses and buildings.

The views on the walk up to the castle were incredible.

Begurs medieval castle

Sunset view from the castle

Don't give up your day job Dan!

This dog was a massive flirt.