On Friday 21 September we set off at 9.45am to drive up to Toledo, the half way point in Spain. It was the usual comfortable drive on the great Spanish motorways. To pick up the motorway from the filling station outside Colmenar I managed to take a wrong turn and found myself driving along a road I did not know for a good many kilometres. I was concerned at one point where road works appeared to totally block this country road. However, when I reached this point the workers had left room for passing and it was controlled by temporary traffic lights. A little farther along the way a woman in a red car flagged me down to ask - in Spanish - if this was the way to Granada. I couldn't help her and later realised that I should have said "follow me" as I had forgotten the motorway ran past Granada airport.
After driving for a number of hours we were almost at our destination and saw Toledo from a distance - what a sight! We checked in at Hotel Martin near the Bisagra Gate and paid the residential parking fee. When she realised I was driving a British registered car, the receptionist suggested I need not pay as the authorities would only chase a Spanish registered car to get payment if not made. I declined this and paid the small sum for 2 day's parking outside the hotel. Whilst we had booked Hotel Martin, we actually stayed next door in their Hotel Duque de Lerma as had happened the previous year.
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