Blogs from Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 22

hola! well im here in spain and it was a long trip. for the last 2 days ive been jet lagged and sleeping like a baby whenever i get the chance too! the family im living with just speaks spanish and im a bit overwhelmed. but lucky my roomate can speak spanish pretty well so that we can get by. the mama cooks for us at each ciesta then we go and take a long nap. i have to say that i like the nap part. all the other meals are tiny. its a bit strange from america! the town is very old and very beautiful. if i dare say it ¨"its so european" here. it doesnt get dark till 11 at night so ppl are out with their famililies till about 1 in the morning. ... read more

My little travel alarm begins to play it's irritating high pitched melody. Shit, I fell asleep. Of course I knew I was going to fall asleep, otherwise I wouldn't have set the alarm. But it's 4:00 and I have a night train to catch at the insane hour of 5:00. Too late to stay up for and too early to be waking up. So I compromised, drinking too many cans of cheap lager and finally passing out around 1:00. Not such a good move. A slight hangover is knocking on the door and I have had nowhere near enough sleep. I check the shower. It's cold. I don't bother. I haphazardly search the room for forgotten items of clothing, shoulder my bag (which seems unbearably heavy after only two hours sleep) and step out into the ... read more

Sarah Farber and I are now in beautiful Salamanca...we arrived yesterday afternoon via bus from Oviedo. Blair and Alyssa journeyed off to Madrid for the next two days and tomorrow we will reunite in Toledo, which is a Midevil town just southwest of Madrid. Salamanca is really an amazing town, it is full of so much history, I really don´t even know how to describe it. The university here, which used to be considered one of the four lights of the world along with Oxford was built in 1219 or something crazy like that. There is such a deep history of the Catholic religion here as well. The most impressive thing of all though is the architecture...it is called plateresque (spelling?) and it is so incredibly intricate and detailed, it is hard to fathom how long ... read more

Hey guys! This weekend was an amazing weekend! The weather was perfect...about 60-65 degrees and sunny! It was a great weekend to be outside and travel which is what I did. Saturday we went to Salamanca which is about an hour train ride northwest of Avila. It was a really cool city/town. It's my favorite place so far since I've been here (out of Avila and Madrid). The University of Salamanca is the oldest university in Spain. It was founded in the 12th century. So there were a ton of people from all over there. I heard a lot of English (I never hear it on the streets in Avila). There were also a lot more people my age. In Avila, the majority of the people are older, younger kids, and middle age adults. The people ... read more

So I woke up this morning at 7:00, to leave by 7:30, so we get to the train station by 8:00 for an 8:45 train ride. It was a 2 hour ride so I got to sleep a bit, but it was uncomfortable. So my suitemates, this girl named Jenny, and I went to Salamanca. When we got there, we went straight to the old Plaza Mayor and got some breakfast. Because I don't drink coffee, I'm always getting Hot Chocolate, which is no shame. It so good! It's actual melted chocolate!! I'm sure it's not the best for my health, but you only live once, right? So yeah, then we walked around town. It was cold and we didn't want to spend a lot of money so we looked at a lot of architecture. You ... read more