Walking in Spain

In our group of friends a lot of walking is required on vacations. Floors just refers to 10 foot gains in elevation.
March 17 - 5728 steps, 2.74 miles, 2 floors, flying most of the day.
March 18 - 16,781 steps, 8.03 miles, 74 floors, took train to Avila, walked around.
March 19 - 22,091 steps, 10.57 miles, 37 floors, Madrid
March 20 - 16,786 steps, 8.03 miles, 55 floors, Madrid
March 21 - 23,102 steps, 11.05 miles, 30 floors, Madrid
March 22 - 20,867 steps, 9.99 miles, 38 floors,Madrid,
March 23 - 21,188 steps, 10.13 miles, 46 floors, Temple of Debod, Thyssen museum, snow and hail
March 24 - 13,260 steps, 6.34 miles, 63 floors, To hanging houses of Cuenca, on to Valencia
March 25 - 31,078 steps, 14.87 miles, 11 floors, Valencia
March 26 - 3843 steps, 1.84 miles, 5 floors, travel to Granada
March 27 - 24,663 steps, 11.8 miles, 47 floors, Granada, walking around Alhambra
March 28 - 11,111 steps, 5.32 miles, 15 floors, to Seville
March 29 - 21,059 steps, 10.08 miles, 25 floors, Seville
March 30 - 5693 steps, 2.72 miles, 13 floors,to Priego De Cordoba
March 31 - 15,525 steps, 7.43 miles, 85 floors, windmills in Consuegra and on to Toledo
April 1 - 16,104 steps, 7.71 miles, 60 floors, Toledo
April 2 - 9695 steps, 4.64 miles, 3 floors, flights back, Madrid to Toronto to Windsor
Totals - 278,574 steps,  124.29 miles, 609 floors.

shoes in Spain

Since I'm with three women shoe stores were regularly visited, I bought two pair, The Geox ones have elastic laces, no tying needed. They were fairly tight and the plastic shoe horn from the first hotel was not strong enough, but fingers worked well enough. I wore them the last 10 days of the trip. Threw out the two pairs of shoes I brought since my luggage did not have enough room, had to have one of the women carry back my bottle of wine I was bringing back.

Geox from Italy

Callaghan from Spain

toilet paper roll location in Spain

This was usually on the wall next to the back of the toilet. You had to make sure your good side could reach it or get the toilet paper ahead of time.  They were usually quite small so getting out as the door swung in meant straddling the toilet and hoping you didn't fall over. Large people probably shouldn't enter these.

Walking downhill Spain

This still showed my walking deficits. I have enough power and control in my legs to safely descend the steep slopes we were on. The problem was that my spasticity would not allow me to swing my leg properly and the  tip of the foot would drag on the pavement. Left foot, by the big toe, not the little toe which would seem normal.

Paper map of Spain

Michelin map of Spain and Portugal. Fully folded out it was about 6 feet by 8 feet and you had to turn it over to get to the rest of the map. One handed opening to the correct area on the map was impossible and required a normal two-handed person to do this for me.  Eventually the cover and an unneeded section were discarded to make it useable.

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Size (mm): 250 x 113

Size (mm): 250 x 113

paper map and GPS on phone for driving

I was the navigator in the front passenger seat. The unwieldly paper map was spread on my lap with the phone on top of that. We spent 6 days in Madrid, rented a car and drove around Spain for 7 days(Cuenca, Valencia, Granada, Seville, Cordoba, Toledo)
Yawning would cause the left arm to rise, dumping the phone on the floor and the paper map someplace else.
Coughing would do the same.
Sneezing would be even worse.
I should be able to go to any therapist in the world to stop that involuntary movement.

Basement restrooms in Spain

Just got back from 2 weeks in Spain. Almost every restaurant there had them in the basement, you have to be quite skilled at steps to accomplish them safely. Lots of times without railings on the good side.