Moving On

Tuesday, May 23, 2017--Salamanca to Caseres

We left Salamanca this morning.  It was a nice city to visit.  The buildings there are covered with a beautiful creamy yellow sandstone which gives them a golden look, especially late in the day.  The entire old town of Salamanca is a World Heritage Site.

Our bus left at 10:00 for Caseres.  It's old town is also a World Heritage Site.  Th difference between it and Salamanca is that Caseres looks like an old city that has not been restored, whereas Salamanca looks amazingly fresh and new.  One of my guides to Caseres warns that not much can be seen if they are filming when one is here.  It is apparently a popular city for filming TV shows and movies including Game of Thrones.


The apartment where we are staying is rather large.  It even has a servants area behind the kitchen.  We each had a choice of 3 bedrooms, and there are two bathrooms including the one for the servant.  It has a nice balcony facing west which we will use as a place to have breakfast.  The kitchen is large and has a gas stove.

The owner was working when we arrived around 13:35, so her mother greeted us.  She was so sweet.  She spoke no English, but we could follow everything she was trying to explain.

We bought groceries during the time we THOUGHT that everything around the city would be closed--14:00-16:00.  That's generally when all cities have been closed.  Then we went out at 16:00 to explore the city only to discover that they close here between 16:00 and 18:00!!

So it was hot and almost everything was closed when we went out.  We managed to see Plaza Mayor and El Palacio de Carvajal and to take some photos in the Plaza de Santa Maria in front of the Cathedral and in Plaza de San Jorge.

We came back home and had happy hour and dinner.  I had bought some smoked pork chops, so I fried some sliced potatoes and some onions and then warmed the pork chops for dinner.  We had bought two bottles of locally made wine to have tonight and tomorrow.  The one we opened tonight wasn't really drinking wine, but we hadn't realized that.  Apparently it is cooking wine.  The one tomorrow night is truly drinking wine, so we should enjoy it much more!!

It's 21:00, and we are going out to see the town in the evening.  It was so dead this afternoon when everything was closed that we want to see how it is in the evening.