I went on another trip with Erasmus Oct 22nd through the 24th to
Segovia,
Salamanca and
Ávila. They are located NW of Madrid.
The first stop on our 3 day trip was
Segovia. In Segovia we visited ancient Roman aqueducts, a Cathedral and a castle:
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| All of the group in front of the aqueducts. |
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| the cathedral from where the bus let us out. |
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| A park in Segovia |
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| a mountain with 7 peeks se llama 7 Picos |
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| a nice view of the city |
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| Aqueducts , the best preserved ancient monument on the Iberian Peninsula |
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| Segovian cats :) |
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| Casa de los Picos |
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| Plaza Mayor |
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| Catedral de Segovia |
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| ...ancient water fountain... |
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| el Alcázar de Segovia from 1752 |
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| It had a mote but it is dried up now. |
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| view from the top of the alcázar |
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| Inside the cathedral |
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| My lunch, it was a 3 course meal and this was the appetizer. It is soup with beans and pork on the left. I don't know what the other one was. |
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| Pork. It was ok but is had a lot of fat on it that I picked off. The skin was really hard and gross so I picked that off too. |
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| dessert. I really wish I could remember what it was called. It was some sort of moose. it was really really good and was citrus flavored. |
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| the outside of the restaurant we ate at. |
Next we went to
Salamanca!
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| this is the inside of the hostle |
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| our botellon outside the hostle |
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| Plaza Mayor de Salamanca at night. |
Here is a video of a choir that was preforming in Plaza Mayor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhQY-8ZwEbE
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| some of the leaders of Erasmus telling us about the bar we are about to go to. |
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| at the bar! We got in free and had free drinks for the first 3 hours. |
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| Hanging out in Plaza Mayor de Salamanca |
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| outside the Palace of Monterrey |
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| Palacio de Monterrey |
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| Casa de las Conchas |
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| The inside of Casa de las Conchas, which is a library by day and a club by night. Only in Spain... |
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| Universidad de Salamanca. Here on this building there is something hidden. Everyone who comes to look at this building tried to find a hidden frog. I couldn't find it but someone showed me it later |
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| the courtyard of The University of Salamanca |
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| sitting in the courtyard of The University of Salamanca with some of my Italian friends. |
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| Catedral Vieja y Catedral Nueva de Salamanca |
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| we had to find 2 more hidden carvings on the cathedral. One was the devil eating an ice cream cone. |
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| The other was an astronaut. He is missing an arm and I don't know why. |
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| A courtyard in front of the cathedral |
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| the entrance to gardens of Salamanca |
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| couples attach locks to the top of this well and write their names on the locks for good luck in their relationship. |
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| view of the cathedral from the gardens |
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| Erasmus in the gardens |
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| My first time seeing an olive tree! |
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| View off the balcony of the gardens. |
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| The streets of Salamanca. |
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| All of the buildings and signs throughout the city had really cool writing on them like this. |
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| housing in Salamanca. |
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| A pretty street in Salamanca. |
The following are pictures of the inside of the Universidad de Salamanca. This is the old part of the University that is like a museum now.
The following are pictures of the inside of the cathedral. we even climbed up to the top of one of the towers of the New Cathedral
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| there was a wedding going on in the cathedral but they still let us tour it. Can you imagine having a wedding there? it si so pretty but its probly normal to them. |
El Río Tormes and some down time:
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| Puente romano constructed in I century |
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| Hanging out by river Tormes |
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| Iglesia- Convento de San Esteban |
For dinner we decided to go shopping to make sandwhiches instead of going out to dinner. It is a lot cheaper!
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| There were a lot of us, and yes, there are 9 loaves of bread in the basket. |
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| Damien with our basket. |
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| At the checkout. |
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| Damien and Alejandra trying to stack all our stuff! |
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| Ivar, the beer man |
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| My first time trying Kinder, an Italian chocolate :) yummie! |
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| Me and Kato at the club the second night. |
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| Leaving the hostel and heading to Ávila. We stayed there 2 nights. |
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Ávila , day 3:
This city is the capital of its providence and is located at a very high altitude. The city is surrounded my this mideval wall that consists of 90 towers. We basically walked around the wall when we were there this is what we saw:
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| Ávila from the bus window. |
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| the wall |
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| views from the wall |
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| On top of one of the towers. |
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| Town Hall |
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| Small market down below |
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| Juan in "Plaza Mayor". It wasn't really plaza mayor but we called it that as a joke bc we assumed that every city in Spain had a Plaza Mayor. |
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| resting for some coffee/tea/hot chocolate |
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| Real Monasterio de Santo Tomás de Ávila |
This trip was really fun! we left Madrid ( Estado Santiago Bernabéu ) at 8 am. We had an hour and a half bus ride and then we arrived at Segovia. We were there till 4 or 5 pm. Then we got back on the bus and headed to Salamanca. when we got to Salamanca we put our stuff down and had some free time till the clud opened. We spent the night In Salamanca. the next day we toured the city and had more free time to see what we wanted. then we went to another bar that night. We spent the night again in Salamanca. The next morning we left Salamanca at 10 or 11 am and arrived in Ávial around 1230 or 1 pm. We were in Ávila for a few hours and then we got back on the bus again and headed back to Madrid. We arrived home at around 8pm. It was a good trip :)
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