062 Spain: Avila and Salamanca

Spain: Avila and Salamanca

On our way to Salamanca we visit the walled city of Avila.

While we've seen many walled cities we've never seen a total view of one like this. It really was breathtaking.

Inside the Cathedral was one of the best (simplest?) Bibliographies I've ever seen. There were about 15 of these 'tiles' putting the church history side by side with the national history and the wold history. It really made understanding 'history' so much easier.

Both the wood and the stone carvings were amongst the most elaborate we have seen (and believe me we've now seen a lot!!!)

I loved this book. It was a massive hymn book which the monks all shared by way of a lectern in the choir stalls.

Finally Frank meets a woman he can see right through.

We are now addicted to Churros and Chocolate. In the best places the chocolate is simply melted dark chocolate. Yummy. Night view of Avila walled city on the wall.

While I realise there have been loads of photos of churches we continue to be impressed.
This one is unusual for its layers.

The roads in Spain are almost empty most of the time. We see these run offs and as there is a motorway (tolls) next to us we are just thinking this is just more infrastructure overkill.

 

but then we see a truck with smoke billowing from its wheels (that for some reason is not visible in the photo) and realise those run offs are 'deadly' serious. The hill is 6km long and 6%. If your breaks were not 100% when you start the descent in a heavy truck you could easily burn them out. 

Frank is tired of only me to talk to so he has a quick chat with a local and gets about just as much response as he does out of me some days!!!!!





We leave Spain and head for Portugal but we will be back.
We like Spain more than we expected and more than France. The weather is better, it is less crowded, the prices are cheaper, the infrastructure (Trains & Roads) are amazing however the food was nowhere near as good. It takes a lot to beat a French bread and patisserie, in our book :)