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Segovia!
... Segovia. Just let me take a minute to say that the US needs a bullet train. It's a little over an hour drive away from where I'm staying, but we took the metro to the train station, where the entire bullet train experience was a little over 25 minutes long. Once we got off the train, we took about a ten minute bus ride into the city. The bus was crammed with other tourists -- I didn't think we would all fit, but we did. The bus dropped us off at ...
Aqueduct, still standing tall
... hard in fact for much of the trip. No livestock grazing, more rocky and mountainous but still beautiful though kinda desolate. The occasional hilltop fortress/town. I just couldn't believe the variety and the quick changes. Of course we were going 250 to 300 KILOMETRES AN HOUR. I wasn't kidding when I said high speed. Blink and you've missed a mountain range, never mind a town.
This wild train ride was to Segovia, a town a ways NW ...
Fiesta de San Juan
Tomorrow we will start classes but today was still another fiesta day! Tonight, there were fireworks at the Plaza de la Artilleria which lit up Segovia sky, ending the opening ceremony of the San Juan and San Pedro festivals according to the newspaper. This weekend was just the start of the festivals! The town of Segovia really ...
Disney's inspiration
... siesta time, so the site was closed. We did have a peek through the gate and saw some bits and pieces of the roman ruins. We continue our journey to Segovia. Rumor has it that Walt Disney got his inspiration for the Disney Castle from the romantic Segovia Castle. Indeed it was a magical little town. We drove under the historic roman aquaduct on our way to our hotel for the night. We ...
Spain: Day 4 - Baby Pigs Never Tasted So Good
... but we still don't know what it was. As for me I had a Revuelto de Ajetes which is an egg scramble that contained green beans and garlic. REALLY delicious.
Seconds: Corrinne had the Salmon a la plancha, which is a plank salmon steak, and I had the Lomo con patatas, some spiced up pork loin. Because of the intense heat, ice cream was ordered for dessert.
The Roman Aqueduct was next. It is on the eastern end of town and really is ...