Blogs from Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 8

Dear all, We already have the t-shirts designed by the famous THE HIP TEE to help us to raise funds for our NGO. Don't u just LOOOOVE them? The profits will go to funs the construction of the orphanage for disabled children we are building in the village of Engosengiu in the district of Arusha in Tanzania. We are selling them at 25Eur, $35 or £21. You can order them just by sending me an email and we will post them to anywhere in the world!!! Thanks a lot for your support With love Maria xxxxx... read more

I’ve been in Salamanca for an official week today! I feel like I’ve already been here forever, and yet the days seem to have flown by. It's still hard to believe I'm going to be here for months at a time! I can't wrap my head around it. I walk to class and pass by grand old cathedrals and huge, ornate plazas cuddled up amongst crowded cobblestone streets. I almost expect to see swordsmen and horses galloping about, but then an auto-bus will come whizzing around the corner to snap me out of my reveries. We flew from London to Madrid, then took a 2 1/2 hour bus ride from Madrid to Salamanca under gray skies and rain. Out of the 28 AIFS students, 8 of us are staying in the student residency. The rooms are ... read more

Road Trip Update After the shaky first night we settled into a great trip! DAY TWO - we drove about 340km's to a tiny mountain village called Alquezar. After a 2 hour walk around the city and up to the lookout we returned to our campsite (a beautiful camp ground and we were the only one's there for €16). We relaxed and cooked up pasta for dinner then I crashed early at only 9.30pm!! haha. DAY THREE - we made a slow start to the day and only got on the road at 10.30am. We set off not really knowing where to go... we ended up choosing a scenic windy road and a town called Vitoria. We drove about 350km's. In Vitoria we found the tourist info centre and discovered while there were no camp ... read more

Hey everyone, So i haven't written in a few days, pretty much just been getting settled in my flat, getting shopping in and figuring out how to use the washing machine and such things. So we didn't go out on saturday night, which sounds like it might have been the main night for fiesta, but our housemates did. Leaving at around 11 at night and gettting back around 7am. Sounds like a good night! Sunday in the evening we went to the Plaza Mayor to listen to some music and a quick to our Irish bar. The music was 3 girls dressed in 60s dress singing in English, which is quite odd because a) sometimes they pronounced things funny and b) I wonder how many people in the audience actually spoke english. Probably more than i ... read more

Hola! Today was a lazy day. Slept in, did some tourist things involving taking about a million photos of the catedral nueva. The Catedral nueva was gorgeous inside with a really high ceiling and lots of religios artwork, that you would expect in a cathedral. Only a handful of people were exploring at the same times as us including a french tour group, but that could be as it coming toward the end of tourist season, end of summer. I fully recommend seeing La Catedral Nueva, and it's free to get in so you can't really waste your money. The only thing i have against it is that a certain depiction of Christ claims to have been created in the 16th Century but looks like plastic. I don't understand why he is standing on a bed ... read more