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| View from our balcony just now as the middle sections are being hoisted into position |
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| This pic was taken just outside the stadium last week |
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| The red thing is a huge crane |
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| This was taken from The Camfield (the new pub for the stadium and the biggest in WA). We went over there for a drink on Anzac Day and it was packed! |
As I left my hotel in Segovia, the sun appeared for a brief moment. I took a taxi to the AVE train station, out of town because of the newish high speed line. In half an hour I was at Chamartin Station in Madrid. I was given a room on the 6th floor of the Barcelo Imagine Hotel, with a view over the entry into the station. I could watch trains coming and going all afternoon. I was also intrigued by watching for the homeless occupant of a shack on a piece of waste ground just below me. They had obviously been there for some time.
My hotel in Segovia
Photo taken from the giant picture window in Segovia Station
View from my window over Madrid Chamartin Station
Homeless shack
This hotel has a music theme, including this floor piano
That's about it for the last day of my travels. I must say that the weather hasn't been the best, but I've not experienced the extremes that some people have on the Camino up north. The section of the Camino I did last year around Pamplona has been completely flooded because of mountain streams dumping their load into the river. Some pilgrims trying to cross found themselves and their possessions up to their necks in water! One girl lost her mobile phone in the stream. The police finally closed the track and bussed people away. So, it could have been worse!
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| Thrones of Ferdinand and Isabella |
I left Zamora on a bright sunny morning just above freezing. I knew from my Weather App that it had been snowing all night in Segovia so I had no idea what to expect. The train left at 11.30 and arrived an hour later. It was a main line train from Corunna and Santiago to Madrid and reached 249 kms per hour in places. I was on the look out for the first signs of snow. The countryside was flat, but there was a snow covered mountain range which came into view as we approached Segovia. The train station appeared to be in the middle of nowhere, with snow covered moorland all around, but a taxi soon transported me to civilisation and to my hotel in the old town, the Convento Capuchinos.
Shots from the train
View from a little garden outside my hotel room
Looking across the Plaza Mayor to the Cathedral
Huge and Gothic!
Information board about the towers of the Cathedral
And now, the famous aqueduct:
Segovia was a Roman military base. Trajan's engineers built a 9-mile aqueduct to channel water from the Rio Frio to the city. The famous and exposed section is 2500 ft long and 100ft high, has 118 arches and was made from 20,000 granite blocks without any mortar.
