This weekend we journeyed to a couple of university towns, Salamanca on Friday then Valladolid on Saturday. We've had a lot of tour guides so far, but our Salamanca guide was by far the best:) Sevilla was a good guide too, but this one was just so fun! And she had a mic so we could hear her...biased maybe? Mostly her title is earned of her own volition though. Salamanca has SUCH a beautiful cathedral! All cathedrals are wonderful, don't get me wrong, but they are definitely not all created equal. Stepping into the cathedral in Salamanca literally took my breath away. My favorite part of Salamanca, however, was the free time:) It was a Friday night in Salamanca, a university town, and it was great to just be able to be a part of it! We found the SICK rap battle. Spanish rap...love it. Need to become more familiar with it, for sure. From there we explored to find the river...I don't think we ever found it. But we found a skate park! That felt SOOOO American, they had American music playing, the clothes, the skateboards...excpet the park was right next to a Roman bridge. Like, an oooold Roman bridge. So that was a little less homey:) Through further exploration we found this EPIC poetry reading (not a reading of epic poetry...a poetry reading of epic proportions) at the Casa de las Conchas. There was a kind of light show on the side of the building and the readers were all in different windows and lit with spotlight...Enya was playing, which alone upped the epic factor at least 30%. We ended up in the Plaza Mayor. It was dark by now so it was great to see it all lit up and just sit and chill with the rest of the Spanish hordes and eat our gummies:) Our gummy obsession is...not diminished in any way by travel. Augmented, if anything.
So Valladolid is one of the newer cities in Spain. It wasn't Visigoth, Roman, Muslim, anything before it was founded in 1072. So it's pretty young, really. The best part about Valladolid was DEFINITELY the food:) But what else is new? We had some free time exploring the city after a quick tour of a sculpture museum and various other sites, but then we headed a few miles out of the city to a bodega where they had a FEAST prepared for us. It's good I'm blogging about this the same day, bc I still may have trouble remembering everything we ate. But we get there and we have to descend into the restaurant, it's built in a hill. We literally ate in a cave:) A cave! Man. That was so cool. It was like a hobbit house. But there was SO MUCH FOOD, far more than any hobbit could eat. We started with bread, jamón and chorizo ibérico, and queso. Ohhh such good queso. And bread. And jamón and chorizo. Then there was salad and tortilla española (holla!) and blood sausage (not nasty! Actually kinda delicious. Still not really clear on what blood sausage is...and I wanna keep it that way) and grilled vegetables and wild mushrooms and we finished off with lamb cutlets, finger style. Dessert consisted of Magnum Minis!!! Bite-sized Magnum ice cream bars! Ooooohooo man. I ate soooooo much. And I will still probably eat a ton at dinner in a few minutes. When I get home, I have got to hit that exercise bike like no other and re-learn how to eat small meals every two hours as opposed to my body weight in food twice a day. Jenessa and I are also probably hit up the Magnum bars we have in the freezer that we bought from a grocery store. We did we bring such a delicious temptation into the house? Bc we have no self-control. Do we regret it? Ha! Yeah right.
Post-dinner update:
Ate way too much at dinner (fajitas), including Pepita's infamous bizcocho (like pound cake. Amaaaazing pound cake that she only makes ONCE A WEEK. Amazing). No Magnum tonight.
A dormir:)
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