Leon, Spain Travel Blogs

Salamanca.
Jul 27, 2008 (97 photos)

A weekend trip to beautiful Salamanca.

Medievil Walls and Aqueducts - Spain Style
Jul 1, 2007 (9 photos)

Our friends Shane and Kate (from the Emirates Episode of this blog) had done a similar trip three years ago, and had given a list of some of their favourite places. One of them was our next destination, Avilla, to the north west of Madrid. Our drive took ...

Trapped.
Aug 1, 2009 (11 photos)

El Jefe (Springsteen that is) visits Valladolid.

Cathedrals and pork blood.
Jul 17, 2009 (21 photos)

A short visit to Burgos.

A day trip to Segovia.
Apr 16, 2007 (24 photos)

Sonia and Nacho (without guacamole), a Spanish couple who happens to be some of Johana's best friends, invited us for a day trip to Segovia. Segovia is one of the other hot tourist spots that you typically have to visit when in the Madrid area. It ranks ...

Navarredonda de Gredos.
Jul 11, 2008 (9 photos)

Kick-off.

Santiago here we come...
Oct 1, 2005 (22 photos)

... , though I was so scared I forgot to breath!! I suppose... you get what you pay for aye! Caught a bus to León, where tomorrow we will start our pilgrimage. We are staying in our first Albergue (cheap hostel like accommodation especially for pilgrims), ...

Rabanal del Camino to Ponferrada - 32.5km
Oct 5, 2005

After eating a very bland, home cooked dinner (pasta, mayonnaise and sweetcorn), we headed to the church to hear the monks sing latin hymns. Although we are not religious, it was quite a moving experience - maybe it was because we couldn't understand ...

The oldest college town in Spain
Apr 30, 2007 (8 photos)

(C) (S) By the end of a 3 week trip, one pretty much just hits the high points. The cathedral was free - so we went in. And it's supposedly the biggest in the world - says Guiness anyway. We found the famous frog on the side of the University - or ...

San Martin del Camino to Astorga - 23.5km
Oct 3, 2005

We found that in San Martin del Camino on a Sunday, there were indeed no shops open. We ended up having dinner with about 20 other pilgrims at the Albergue. We had someone translate to the hospitalier (owner of the Albergue)that we were vegetarians, ...

Quick visit to the Burgos Cathedral
Aug 19, 2008 (8 photos)

Our Lady of Burgos was begun in the 13th century at the same time as the great cathedrals of the Ile-de-France and was completed in the 15th and 16th centuries. The entire history of Gothic art is summed up in its superb architecture and its unique ...

Avila, Salamanca and onward to Portugal
Apr 11, 2001 (1 photos)

Our InterRail ticket became valid on April 9th and we decided to stop off at Avila on our way to Salamanca. Avila is a walled city and is where St. Teresa was born. It is worth spending a couple of hours here, but it is best seen from afar. We walked to ...

Queens, Nuns....and their Sarcophagi
Jun 18, 2006 (70 photos)

... clear Arabic influence in the decorations of some of the rooms and chapels of the convent, as is common throughout all of Spain. The inctricate arabesque designs, some colored, others faded, hinted the vaults of the inner part of the cloister, which was ...

Dreams
Nov 24, 2007 (60 photos)

... .   And Finally   I don't know what the fuss is about this place. Personally, there are far better places to go to in Spain. If you do want a Moorish hill type town, go to Albuquerque or better still, Trujillo, you will not be disappointed.

escape from Portugal
Apr 24, 2004 (5 photos)

... the pension owners didn't know what (music?). There are some plazas and cathedrals here, but not too much spectacular. side street in Léon I've been trying some of the local foods while here. One of Portugal's things is a dried, salted cod so I wasn't ...

Of palaces, castles and cathedrals
Jun 11, 2006 (94 photos)

This Sunday's stop was the old city of Segovia. I had been here before once with my Dad when I was 11 years old and I had a few vague memories. Like the medieval tavern-like restaurant with a front view of the Roman Aqueduct where he ordered suckling pig ...

to Day 18
Jun 27, 2006 (25 photos)

The Route!!!! Sooooo (said like a german) The first couple of days the hike was very pretty. The trail wound around rolling hills and through quaint little Spanish villages. We reached Pamplona on our third day of walking (city of running of the bulls) ...

Back on the road
Jul 3, 2006 (25 photos)

Chelise here. So as you've seen from our many photos how amazing our walk has been. It's actually really hard to convey as we moved to a different place everyday and met so many new people and saw so many festivals and beautiful things. There was one ...

Over the boarder
Oct 14, 2005 (5 photos)

Segovia we found to be a typical Spanish town with the unusual feature of a very large Roman aquaduct running right through the middle ! Apart from shopping we found little else of interest.

Up to Day 12
Jun 24, 2006 (26 photos)

... goal was to keep both body and mind fit,(with out spending to much money) to enjoy the changing countrysides of northern Spain, and reflect in a natural setting.....and to hook up with hot chicks! Oh yeah, The Catholic Church also delcared that you if ...

Du 16 au 21 septembre
Sep 21, 2007 (4 photos)

Du 15 au 21 septembre

Salamanca
Nov 17, 2002 (39 photos)

ya lo comentare

pin for Avila
Oct 23, 2007

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March 12 - A Day of Meetings
Mar 12, 2008

... . Before I even went to class I had to go to the International Relations office to get officially enrolled in the University of Leon, then I had to go to the Education building to get officially enrolled in classes. Then I finally went to school (about an ...

I left my "burdens" at the Iron Cross
Jul 13, 2009

... the camino.  We see many concrete rivers and ditches along with dams or baffles to switch the flow along the way.  Spain, especially the Leon region, must have a huge irrigation plan.  I will read up on that when I get home. (One of many ...

Plain loco!
May 11, 2009 (3 photos)

... of the Via de la Plata, originally a Roman road that ran the whole length of what was its province of Lusitania (now Spain and Portugal). The pilgrims adopted the route in the 11th century as a way to reach Santiago de Campostella from Seville, linking ...

Doing work for the first time
Sep 17, 2009 (6 photos)

The end of this week is the first time we've actually had work that is somewhat comparable to work in La-Crosse.  For the first two weeks, our homework pretty much consisted of reading 1-4 pages of some packet and then coming to class with questions ...

Excurción a Segovia
Oct 9, 2006 (8 photos)

Hola Todos, Da ich Toledo langsam kenne, so gross ist es ja nun wirklich nicht, habe ich begonnen kleinere Ausflüge in der Umgebung zu machen. Letztes Wochenende verschlug es mich mit einem Franzosen und zwei Deutschen nach Segovia und Avila. Wir machten ...

Camino 1
Sep 23, 2006 (13 photos)

... names that sounded like songs: Vailladolid (VEYE-a-doh-LEED), Portomarin (PORT-a-moor-EEN), Palas de Rei, etc. I began my adventure to Spain by nearly leaving my passport in Eva's luggage. It was 5 in the morning, which is really my only excuse. We ...

From Lost to the River
Oct 28, 2008

... when I am dead!"   During our recent linguistic and cultural adventure in La Alberca, an old village in Western Spain, Casey and I learned a lot about the Spanish language, and concomitantly, a great deal about the Spanish lifestyle.  We ...