Conquering Spain
Hola! Que tal? You may guess it already from the map above... Right, we took a trip in Spain! First we visited Salamanca, then headed north to the region surrounding Llanes, Asturias. Next destinations were Burgos, Medinaceli and Cuenca till we finished the road trip in Albacete were we where guests at Stefan's second cousin's wedding. Let's start in Salamanca: we were lucky to be there while they were celebrating their "ferias", which ist about a week or ten days of party all over the town including various events.
The most-lucky thing for me was that by coincidence the galician musician Mercedes Peon was playing at the Plaza Mayor! Great!
Lucky me!
Maybe the best known riddle in the whole of Spain: Find the frog!
Well, let's continue the journey now. To Asturias, where we spent most of the time laying on the beach (actually different beaches) and eating seafood, mmmh!
And what sort of beaches they were: long sandy beaches, rocky bays and rather coldish water!
...but beautiful in any way!
But we also had to bid farewell to sea (how i hate goodbyes...). As a little comfort we went to Burgos, which lies directly on the "Camino de Santiago". We spent about three hours there =^+^= Uhm, we didn't have so much time...
The most impressive cathedral of Burgos:
Then we rushed off to the beautiful one-horse-town of Medinaceli (not on the map, but the fourth point on the route), which was quite a puzzle of different architectural and cultural manifestations. The roman arch of Medinaceli:
Mediaeval houses:
It also has a great ruin of a castle (where i must confess that i forgot in which period it was built)
Let's move to Cuenca now, the "enchanted city", where clocks still run a little different:
Cuenca is famous for its hanging houses:
The last point of the journey was Albacete, were the wedding took place. Unfortunately this town doesn't have anything worth taking a photo of - and those of the wedding are top secret, especially those of the day after... =)
To sum it up, it has been a great journey with lots of things to see and to taste and so i came back with a whole bunch of strong impressions and immediately subscribed to a spanish course!
Hasta la próxima!
4 Kommentare:
Awesome! Especially the picture of the street :-) and I would love to see these houses on the rocks myself. They look not only very picturesque but also very pretty :D
Seems like you had a great time, had you not? ;-)
Vero :-)
PS: you turned yourself into the lady in red now? ;-)
funny, most of the time i was wearing green... seems like we don't have any pics of that!
yes of course, it was gorgeous! and very warm, just ideal weather!
Cuenca, the town with the funny houses is not sooo far from Madrid actually, so you can actually reach it by bus or train!
Heyho!
One has to admit that there are uncountable beautiful places in Spain to visit and the country is divided in many quite different areas that all have their interesting parts. I´m sure that two young students like us could get to know at least some of them if we like to!
I think it´s great that you are going to start some Spanish lessons (of course for advanced speakers) in Octobre!
Well, and as you are now a member of the University of Salamanca ... what could be left to say there?!
A thousand hot spanish kisses,
Stefan
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