Salamanca Spain

Over to Spain and to sample the ham!

The food is a bit odd here, lots of meat and potatoes, cooked more like the English cook and a lot of pork and sardines!

What always amazes me when you enter another country is not only the culture changes but the landscape seems to also, northern Spain is very hot, very dry and reminds me of the prairies in the heat of the summer. Golden fields of straw and quite flat, so far I would have to say not one of my favourite landscapes.

We stopped off in Salamanca, not far from Madrid, as you approach this city there is nothing but flat fields and then all of a sudden you are in the middle of a busy city, its quite odd. Again we arrived around 4pm in the afternoon to no one around, then at 6pm the shutters go up and the tables come out and people come from nowhere to fill the city square and it turns into a very busy atmosphere till about 2am in the morning, very fun and very hot!

It wouldn’t be Spain if you didn’t sample the Sangria, its cheap $4 euro a jug in most places so trevs switched to beer and Sangria!!

Salamanca has two cathedrals in the centre of town one is huge with an impressive tower that reaches 110meters . The Cathedral was built in Medieval times in the 12^th century and then in the 16^th century another tower was added, we climbed the steps to the top of this tower and when you reached the top the view was spectacular, a little freaky as there were metal straps holding the thing together, ugh! It took over 300years to build this Cathedral. The wealth that is housed inside these cathedrals is huge, gold, silver and not to mention the age of most of the items themselves, i guess that the more wealth the church had the more power they had!