Leg 50 Santo Tome Del Puerto to Zaragoza, Spain
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I didn’t get very far from where I started, and didn’t reach the Pyrenees as planned. There was simply too much to see along the way. Next week will be different, just one PG city left to explore (Barcelona) before leaving Europe behind. My average flying height has been 1,200 feet lately, lovely detailed areas. I imagine I’ll be flying quite a bit higher while exploring Africa.
Today, exploring the South-East of Spain
10-11 Santo Tome Del Puerto LETP 5:16 AM
10-11 Barajas, Mardrid LEMD 5:45 AM
10-11 Casas de los Pinos LEPI 6:51 AM
Restart, bad performance after Madrid, very long time to close the game
10-11 Casas de los Pinos LEPI 7:04 AM
10-11 AeroCieza LECE 7:36 AM Murcia on the way
10-11 Los Martinez Del Puerto LEMP 8:14 AM Cartagena South
10-11 Aeroclub Mar Meno LESJ 8:28 AM
10-11 Alicante LEAL 8:43 AM
10-11 Alicante LEAL 9:35 AM Benidorm on the way
10-11 Aerodromo forestal Castell de Castells 10:12 AM LECS
10-11 Campo de Vuelo de Xaraco 10:25 AM
10-11 Manises (Valencia) LEVC 10:52 AM
10-11 Manises (Valencia) LEVC 11:34 AM
10-11 Club ULM La Llosa LEDB 11:43 AM
10-11 Castellon De La Plana Aerodrome LECN 11:57 AM
10-11 Vinaros Airfield LECL 12:26 PM Nice spot, short runway
10-11 Deltebre LEDT 12:40 PM Beautiful almost on the beach
10-11 Cogullada (Zaragoza) LEZA 1:35 PM
Flight time: 6:45 14 stops
Arriving in Madrid following Paseo de la Castellana, looking North here at the crossing with Calle de Joaquin Costa, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium on the right side at the next big intersection
To the old center, Temple of Debod on the left side of the park
An ancient Egyptian temple moved over from Aswan, Eqypt and serves as a museum
Palacio Real de Madrid or Royal palace of Madrid from the 1800’s on the right
Catedral de la Almudena on the left
Basilica of San Francisco el Grande with paintings by Francisco Goya on the left
Puerta de Toledo in the square (or rather circle) on the right
The bubbles of color is Mercado de la Cebada, a wet market that also sells clothes and art
El Retiro park, big 19th-century park
Palacio de Cristal in the park, the crystal palace modeled on London’s Crystal Palace
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Estadio Vicente Calderón on the banks of the Manzanares
Home stadium of Atlético Madrid since its completion in 1966 to 2017, currently a museum
Time to head out, back to the Mediterranean. Flying past Cieza
So far the terrain has been mostly flat, some elevation changes at Blanca
Arriving in Murcia, Palacio Almudí, art musem facing the square
Catedral de Murica facing Episcopal Palace of Murcia
I’m sure you recognize these by now, Plaza de Toros with BESOCCER La Condomina behind
Moving on, flying past Sierra de la Muela, nature preserve
Alicante on the Mediterranean, Concatedral d’Alacant Sant Nicolau de Bari, 1600’s cathedral in front
Of course the dominant feature is Santa Bárbara Castle
9th century Muslim hilltop castle / fortress
View from below, the path up starting at Barrio de Santa Cruz Alicante
If you look closely, one of the grey rooftops has an arrow painted on top. It’s there on Google and Bing as well. It’s a mystery arrow.
The castle behind… Plaza de Toros!
One more view of the castle while flying onwards
Serra Grossa nature preserve, sticking out of the land right behind Santa Barbara castle
Great place for hiking and enjoying the views
Nice scenic landing spot at Aerodromo forestal Castell de Castells
A challenging landing spot, short runway at Campo de Vuelo de Xaraco
Valencia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, the future is here
Hemisfèric, now that’s an Imax theater! I wish I could have seen Interstellar there.
The old inner city featuring a 13th century Cathedral up front
Nou Mestalla, a partially build football stadium, on halt since 2009 due to financial reasons
Another nice place to land, Castellon De La Plana Aerodrome
Parc Naturel de la Serra d’Irta
Parc Naturel del delta de l’Ebro, nature reserve on the Ebro river delta
Deltebre LEDT is the thin strip right below my plane, landing just to the left of the beach
Parc Naturel des Ports, mountainous limestone national park
One of the ports
Embalse de Caspe II
Sunset over Galoches de el Burgo de Ebro, nature reserve
Arrival in Zaragoza, just in time before dark
Great weather today, hopefully it holds out for the Pyrenees revisit tomorrow