Travelin' with the Zs

A Night in Vejer de la Frontera and Two Days in Arcos de la Frontera

Vejer de la Frontera We headed south from Trujillo, where it was hot, to Vejer de la Frontera, where it was hotter - approaching 100°. Vejer is a “pueblo blanco” - a white town, so named because it has been here for a thousand or more years and every building in the town is stark white, an effort to live...

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Monfragüe

I’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Monfragüe - we had not until the woman at the Officina de Tourism gave us a brochure on the new Monfragüe National Park, about an hour north of Trujillo. We decided this would make a good day trip, with the bonus of spending time in our air-conditioned car; temps were forecast to...

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Trujillo

After Zamora we drove four hours south to Trujillo.

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