Sunday morning, Harry and got up as planned and took the metro from Hostal Zamora to the Tetuan station and walked to the VIPs restaurant just a few doors away from where we would meet the bus to go to Campus Puente Nueva. We got there just before they opened at 9:00 and were the first customers. We both ordered the "English Breakfast" for 5.95 Euros and got this feast of fresh squeezed OJ, coffee and platter of food - two eggs, tomatos, fries, mushrooms, bacon, sausage and roll. This was one of the best values we had in Spain.
At 9:45, we walked over to the Eurobuilding with our luggage and started meeting the the Spaniards and getting on the bus. We got all of the luggage loaded and all of the people on the bus for what was an easy 90 minute ride to Campus Puente Nueva on the outskirts of the small town El Tiemblo, Spain. The campus was originally built to house the workers that built and operated the hydroelectric plant build there on Rio Alberche. It was later purchased by Gas Natural Fenosa and transformed into the modern campus that exists today. There are some 150 rooms in about 30 buildings. They are all very modern and include private rooms with en suite bathrooms, dining rooms, a social club with bar, gymnasium, swimming pool (closed at this time of year), meetings rooms, reception, security, etc. There is everything you can think of for a large resort.
The buildings and grounds are beautiful. Here is the reception building.
They advertised that they had wifi - but it was not very good and was a problem all week for anyone who needed internet connectivity. I needed it for teaching my online classes and the wifi was extremely slow and intermittent. Their computer lab did not work much better either - old Dell computers with old software - when I went to the Moodle site for my classes, it said that I had to upgrade the software to access the site. So I ended up using my cell phone to do my classes - not much phone at all.
Our rooms were very modern and spacious - very nice accommodations.
This is building 10. I had room #1, ground floor on the left. There were three other rooms in this section, one more on the ground floor and two upstairs.
At 9:45, we walked over to the Eurobuilding with our luggage and started meeting the the Spaniards and getting on the bus. We got all of the luggage loaded and all of the people on the bus for what was an easy 90 minute ride to Campus Puente Nueva on the outskirts of the small town El Tiemblo, Spain. The campus was originally built to house the workers that built and operated the hydroelectric plant build there on Rio Alberche. It was later purchased by Gas Natural Fenosa and transformed into the modern campus that exists today. There are some 150 rooms in about 30 buildings. They are all very modern and include private rooms with en suite bathrooms, dining rooms, a social club with bar, gymnasium, swimming pool (closed at this time of year), meetings rooms, reception, security, etc. There is everything you can think of for a large resort.
The buildings and grounds are beautiful. Here is the reception building.
The campus is large enough that they need to have signs to find things. They have labelled the different parts of the campus with the continents.
Our rooms were very modern and spacious - very nice accommodations.
This is building 10. I had room #1, ground floor on the left. There were three other rooms in this section, one more on the ground floor and two upstairs.
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