On the Road Again!

Whilst I was concerned with the MyRouteApp problems, blogged elsewhere, I was in a quandary. Give up on MyRouteApp Navigation and simply go through the maps in Google Maps and enter the coords into the Ohrex? I leant towards the latter. So using MyRouteApp,  where waypoints display the coords, I was able to create "favourites" in the Ohrex. With MyRouteApp seemingly fixed, I returned to the holiday planning. Once Sandaya confirmed the booking for three nights in Valencia I started looking for routes towards "home". There are eight nights after Valencia to be filled.  I still want to call in or even stay at Canfranc Station.  My brother Neill and I stopped off here for a look around and lunch after the Somport Pass on the way to Morella  in Aragón in September 2022.  In the motorhome we will be taking the Somport Tunnel! The massive old station was a building site as it was being transformed into a luxury hotel. It was closed and behind fences. It's now open and ...

Valencia I decided to park in an underground car park opposite the El Corte Ingles store. It makes it much easier when you can follow their signs as well to find where you have left the car! Getting into the city was straight forward with the GPS doing all the hard work for us, Although she did take us past the Valencia CF football ground twice as we had a problem deciphering the directions she was giving us. The first pic I took was of the bullring at the end of Carrer Colon. Next door is the railway station but its ornate and early Edwardian facade was very hard to get a decent angle on with all the damned traffic! From here it was a right turn towards the similarly ornate and hard to photograph Correos and then the Town Hall. This is easier to photograph,m even if the guide book is misleading when it says the city's coat of arms is left aloft by two naked females. Not quite what I had expected. The bat is there above the shield as this is in memory of the fact that a bat is sup...