26 October another absolutely perfect day; cold morning and nice afternoon

Visited Disneyland today. Well, almost as it closed when we got there and we did not hang around for their two hour lunch. It certainly looked just like a piece at disneyland.

The Knights Templar castle is, or so they said, the most complete castle left in Spain. If you go to the flickr site you will see more pictures from the outside. Naturally need to look at flickr site of this date.

There are eight photos, one is a panorama which will not show on flickr.

A nice short summary of the history of the Knights, originally commissioned to protect pilgrims on route to Jerusalem, can be found at

http://www.knight-templars-in-spain.com/history.htm

Ponferrada was advertised as a boring mining and industrial city; we found it a nice small city with an old quarter fun to explore. See the pic below for some of the “sights”.

Lunch was a very uninspiring collection of Empanadas. Dinner will be an excellent collection of ham, cheese, sardines, bread, fruit and Gazpacho soup from a container. Picnic in the room as we are in a good hotel. Mini-bar is free. Just help yourself. Have not seen this since Vienna. Wi-Fi in the room is 12 euro; here in the lobby free.

The other bottom picture is an early morning shot of Molinaseca. We waited until the sun came up before setting forth. As it was a short distance KB and QB kept together for a change.

Entry to Ponferrada

Molinaseca early morning