Malaysian solo female traveller's guide to Spanish road trip

The writer enjoying the beautiful sunflowers in Seville.

While on a work assignment in Madrid, Spain, I plucked the courage to go on a seven-day solo road trip.

My first stop was at La Mancha where the windmills are perched on a hill across the open plains. It was incredibly windy, and I thought I was going to get blown away! The windmills were used to grind grain back in the day but they have not been in operation since the 1980s.