Blogs from Segovia, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 3

After Madrid I had a fantastic final week. On Wednesday we decided o go for a hike. There are many mountains in the area if you couldn’t guess from the pictures. The bus ride was about 20 minutes out of the city (it was 2.50 both ways too) and we found the trail up to the mountain by walking toward the mountain and getting help from a random stranger. I’m glad they knew enough Spanish because I could not understand what was going. All in all we went up the mountain for two and a half hours and ended up finding a place to relax and enjoy Nutella-Peanut Butter Sandwiches. The view was incredible because we could see all the way out into the city and to various places we have visited in the area, like ... read more

Good morning from Segovia, Its monday morning and seeing as yesterday I posted nothing ,here goes. I think this will be more photos than text as yesterday was Sunday and I took the scenic route. I started from Plasencia at just before eight in the morning and headed up the Jerte valley. Almost no traffic and wonderful scenery. I turned off the N110 to head into the Gredos. Following sadvice from The "Best biking roads "Site I crossed over the whole mountain range. Awesome and built for motorbikes. I stopped for breakfast at a well known bike Cafe and had a Bocadillo and several coffees before heading on. My plan had been to stay in Avila but I took a detour to San lorenzo de Estorial. Amazing building but too many sunday trippers. Me and myself ... read more

Well howdy. First off I want to apologize for butchering the Spanish language. I usually just butcher the English language. Most of the word that I have learned have been in speech and I give the spelling mixed up. Spanish is a phonetic language and it doesn’t matter how I spell things for the most part here, but I am talking to Americans who cannot write a paper without Autocorrect but decide that their mastery of English qualifies them to be grammar Nazis. Damn Facebook. Here is what I have been up to. On Sunday I slept in and did nothing really. In the evening I watched Terminator 3 and Police Academy in Spanish. I thought that Terminator was cool when he said “volverá” because I knew what he was talking about (it literally means She’ll ... read more

What has happened in the last couple of days? Hmm. Lets see. Wednesday was uneventful. I found myself wanting to go to sleep more than I did. The day just kind of slipped away with homework. I wish I knew Spanish so that my homework would go faster. But the language is actually not that bad. I have enjoyed the work classes and my host family’s words are becoming easier and easier to interpret. Al in all nothing much happened on Wednesday so on to Thursday. I also decided to keep it calm and spend very little time on homework. I found some postcards that will probably get back to NC after me. I also found some shops for good souvenirs and gifts. I like to say that because I am not getting most of you ... read more

It has definitely been an interesting day thus far. It started at 5:30 in Raleigh and realizing how tired this past semester has made me. So tired in fact that I did not realize that my flight left at 10:40 am instead of 8:30 am like I thought. Well, it was disappointing when I had to wait around for 2 hours after getting up so early. One piece of good fortune almost fell in my lap after I went to the gate. The attendant at the desk asked for a volunteer to take a flight that was an hour later than mine to New York so that someone that bought the ticket at the last minute could have a seat. In return they were offering a $300 flight voucher for another plane ticket in the future. ... read more