Zaragoza; Saturday, 14 March, 2015

A slightly less excessive lie-in meant that the breakfast room was actually quite busy by the time I got down.

I left the hotel and headed out to the Plaza del Pilar to pick up the double-deck hop-on-hop-off tour bus. This was the first day of the season that the service was due to operate so I was a bit dubious as to whether it would run, but it did, though it took slightly longer than timetabled as in a number of places around the Expo site they had to work with a road layout that had changed from the previous summer.

I did two full circuits, to take in the view from both sides before arriving back by the Basilica just around 2pm. A quick wander around the square to take me past the chimes of the hour and then into a very nice restaurant for another stonking lunch.

After lunch I had a look at the list of sights to see, and with the Forum closed it was pretty obvious that I’d exhausted Zaragoza of most sights if I didn’t want to trek out to the Expo site and pay through the nose for the aquarium, so I had a bit of a walk around the city centre before picking up the tour bus again back to the Basilica.

The bus arrived back just as the sun was starting to set and turned out to be the last service of the day that would do the entire route effectively at night so I stayed on to take a different view of the city.

Back in the main square just on 9pm I found a tapas bar and had a light supper before heading back to the hotel