We woke to realise why our nice hotel room was so cheap, if you don't close the curtains properly, everyone riding the glass elevator opposite gets a great view into your room.
We can't actually get up for the loo without being put on some kind of register!
We managed to sneak out and tried to find somewhere to grab some breakfast. Before that though, we needed a cashpoint. Unfortunately none of them work in this town, the first was out of order, the second wanted you to pay for a code and then you could collect money (sounds legit), finally the 3rd would let you get cash out.
We stopped at a bakery for breakfast, Mark had a loaf of bread to eat whereas Steve ordered some Fartons just because he liked the name. It turns out that fartons are really nice and come with a warm pot of chocolate sauce, or "follow through juice" as it's known.
We left Burgos and started our long four hour drive southeast. We'd picked a nice scenic route rather than motorways the whole way but Google kept insisting on telling us to go other ways.
Steve has now named the car "Puablo", he's getting a bit too familiar with it for Marks liking!!!
We stopped at a visitors spot to stretch our legs, it was well signposted and had its own 2km long road leading to it with special cycle lanes and everything. They must have spent a fortune on the place. Closed.
Ok, so, we'll move on then, our vacation was starting to feel a little like the Griswolds trip to Wally World.
After another hour or so we were both needing the loo and Public was running low on fuel, so we left the main roads looking for a gas station and maybe somewhere to get a snack.
What we found was the worlds oldest village, with a castle, walls and so on. Just outside the walls was a nice restaurant with roman patio furniture made out of stone. We also found Steve an upgrade for his BMW
After lunch we went for a walk around this town, it turns out that there are no people here (really, we walked for 30mins and saw no one), however, we did see lots of cats which led us to believe that the town has been taken over by felines, probably sometime in the Middle Ages.
We got back on the road before they had chance to enslave us and found some a petrol station and got back on track and soon we were at our destination Molina de Aragon.
Our hotel was some palace or something and looked very old, after checking in we went to the visitor info place in the town and they told us a few things that we needed to see. One of these was the palace we were staying in!
After mooching around town for a while we decided to grab a beer so found a nice looking bar which had a large Ambar sign outside, a brand of beer that we liked. We sat down and ordered 2 pints of Ambar only to be told they didn't serve that. Eh? There's a massive sign above our heads?! Anyway we had a couple here until our stomachs started grumbling and we needed to find food.
All of the restaurants that Google and trip advisor know about are closed for some reason, so we went to a busy bar where they served tapas. We ordered a couple of beers and instead of getting the normal dish of complementary nuts or crisps, we were given a plate of food. Worried that they'd put this on the wrong table we went to give it back but they insisted. Im not talking about a small tapas dish here, it was a decent meal. Anyway, we got the menu, didn't understand anything so ordered a plate of ham, then pointed at someone else's meal and asked for one of those 'no'. Huh? Why can't we have what they're having? Any way , we couldn't understand each other, but we saw someone eating chicken wings, so we pointed at that and again got 'no'. The waiter pointed at the menu, insisting that we could only have stuff on there and not what they were actually serving to everyone else. We gave up and just stuck with the ham and ordered some more beers.
The ham came out, followed by another free plate of food with our drinks, this one had wings on it, prawns, cheese sticks, etc. Then we figured it out, people don't order food here, you just buy drinks and get a free random meal of whatever the chefs are making at that time.
We quickly ordered a couple more drinks and before long we were stuffed. No wonder all of the restaurants were closed, everyone comes here and has free food! At the end of the night when we were stuffed, we asked for the bill, now consider that the ham we ordered cost €8 and Marks last drink cost €5 as he had an expensive vodka, we were astonished to find that the bill for 8 drinks, the ham and all that food only came to €25! When Steve saw this he pulled a face at Mark which the bar man saw who rushed over and was worried because he thought that we thought that it was too much!
We gave him €30 and went back to the palace for a nightcap. At the reception we asked for our key and was told by the guy working there who spoke no English that they were full. We tried to explain we already had a room but he wasn't having it until we pointed to our names on the register, he then thought this was the funniest thing ever.
At the bar Steve had a bucket of wine and Mark had a large Baileys. Now hotel bars are expensive, right, and this was a palace. The bill for the Baileys was one Euro. We like this place!
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