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By ridgydidge46
June 19th 2009

The contained city. Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

The walled city.

Today we went to Avila. It was a 90 minute trip, hoping to not only see the town and Cathedral, but also to visit the tomb of St Teresa. The fact that it is an UNESCO World Heritage listed site because it has the best preserved city wall also attracted us to the town. We only discovered once we got there that her tomb is in Salamanca. Nevertheless, we still made the most of the medieval city and its attractions. We spent a couple of hours exploring the Cathedral, but we weren’t able to take any pictures or video. One interesting [View Full Entry]

By Antibody Man
December 16th 2008

Back in Spain again! Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

Avila cathedral

I'm back in Spain again, this time with Lara! We flew to Madrid, and had a good look around the city, but Lara didn't take my photo anywhere. We were enjoying the slightly warmer (and definitely less wet) weather than we'd left behind at home, but when we set off to drive West, into the mountains, we found that it had snowed! The road was, fortunately, cleared very efficiently and we drove to Avila. Lara took me to see the cathedral, and I had a play in the snow, before we admired the medieval city walls from a short distance away. [View Full Entry]

By Bishshat
October 26th 2008

Segovia to Avila Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

Avila

Day 8 Wednesday 17th September 2008 Segovia to Avila We left Segovia after 10am and drove the 50 miles to Avila. Sue was looking forward to Avila as it was on her most to visit list on this trip. Ávila is most known for the medieval city walls, that were constructed of brown granite in 1090: surmounted by a breastwork, with eighty-eight towers and nine gateways, they are still in excellent repair, but a large part of the city lies beyond their perimeter. The Gothic cathedral is integrated into the city's defences. It was built between the 12th and 14th centuries, [View Full Entry]

By lupatty516
October 20th 2008

The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the... Mountains? Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

And They're Off!

Well, howdy, ya’ll! Long time, no post! I haven’t updated in two weeks because I haven’t had enough blog-ish material for separate entries, so I’m lumping it all into one long one. Happy reading! Last weekend (the 11th), just about everyone left for various individual trips… Thursday was some holiday in the region of Valencia (although no matter how many times it was explained to me, I still don’t understand it), so everything was closed for the day, and most people took a long weekend. I stayed here, though, as Saturday was the Volvo Ocean Race! Da [View Full Entry]

By gypsy_teacher
August 29th 2008

Quick stop in Avila Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

All the guidance you need

After spending the day in Salamanca, I needed to drive through to my next town of stay, Segovia. On the way to Segovia, I decided to stop by Avila and see as much as the town I could. This town was probably one of the coolest towns you can drive up upon. As the picture shows, it is basically a town put within the castle walls. The border area between Spain and the Muslim empire is now being shown much clearer. The walls were built in 1090, and are still in good condition! This town is built up in a [View Full Entry]

By sambasa
February 26th 2008

Ávila is a walled town Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

el chico

So it was about time that I took a trip to visit Louis in Ávila. I managed to catch the last us and got there just in time for the trip to the kebab and then, the bars!!! Despite it's size, Ávila seems to have a healthy proportion of young people and therefore...bars! Hurray! Besides that, Shannon had appointed herself my winglady for the weekend. If perhaps I had mastered the knack of Spanish chat-up, we may have made an indestructable pair. But as it is. Im absolutely bloody useless at pulling in Spain. Ah well. It was a good night [View Full Entry]

By ToledoChica
February 3rd 2008

Trip to Avila Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

Cathedral

On Friday, two of my friends and I decided to take a trip to Avila, a town that is north-west of Toledo. We took the AVE to Madrid, then got on a bus to Avila. The bus ride was about an hour and a half. Avila is much colder than Toledo, and there are mountains with snow on them! It also snowed (for about 3 minutes) during our bus ride! The best part was we saw these signs on the road that warned of snow (I tried to get a picture but it didn't work!). Avila is a really beautiful city. [View Full Entry]

By crockett243
September 30th 2007

Avila Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

So yesterday we took a day trip to Avila. All was going fine. I was at Kastin's house getting ready and took out my cell phone to play a game and then slipped it into my pocket. After we arrive in Avila, Pablo gets a phone call from our friend saying she has my phone. I have never felt so confused in my entire life!!! Apparently it slipped out of my pocket when I got change out at the newstand to buy a newspaper after we left Kastin's house. What happened was some lady found my phone and called the first [View Full Entry]

By twonutters
June 19th 2007

Avila Day out Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

chapel

Not the sound of the alarm clock , matt jumped up to look outside , pouring with rain, quick decision looking across to all the other pilot staying , with there necks stretched to the heavens , yep unanimous decision by all , back under the duvet. Resurfacing round 11am the dreaded thought I was running out of clean clothes again, this time armed with back up Matt was given the induction session to the “good old days” although one to see positives you do get a great suntan while slaving away. Felling the need for more discovering the sun [View Full Entry]

By ssully413
February 25th 2007

The Walled City.... Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Ávila

We have arrived....

Hola amigos! Como estas? See my Spanish IS improving!! Like I have said before it is not easy picking up the language seeing as I am teaching English, planning lessons in English and everyone I live with speaks English. Even my roommate from Mexico wants to always speak English so he can improve, but that doesn't mean I am not trying. Last weekend, I spent almost the entire weekend surrounded by the Spanish language. It was difficult but necessary. Friday night I went to a friend of Marcos' (my Mexican roommate) for a little while. Everyone there was from Mexico so [View Full Entry]

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