Pensione Marquez Cáceres

So Trujillo!

Really, I don´t have much to report, I should have thought of more and written sooner, as I have forgotten most of what has happened.

Trujillo is a pretty neat little town. Well, it`s not quite a town, more like a city. But of all the places I have been so far, I prefer Trujillo over the rest. Sure its big and popu...

Spent a couple of days in Trujillo and walked around the old town, also drove out into the countryside to some of the surrounding villages. Went to a fantastic bar right on the top of a hill, after driving round trying to find houses for sale. Nice relaxing couple of days practicing our Spanish.

Thursday and Friday the 1st and 2nd of October I had a 2 day orientation in Caceres. I met so many great people, and I barely made a dent in the number of people that were actually there. I'll give you a run down so you can get an idea of how it all went. We arrived Wednesday afternoon, and I made my first 3 friends--Colten (Georgia), Joe (Sout...

I awoke on the night of the 19th in an utter haze. We arrived to Caceres on a bus that was horribly uncomfortable and not conducive to the quality of sleep necessary for overcoming the jet lag. I had been awake for almost all of the last 24 hours, barring the alcohol assisted cat nap on the ride from Amsterdam. The bus finally came to a stop aft...

Today is my final rest day of the trip and I am spending it doing the usual list of chores. Tourism Office here (which is not the easiest to find) opens at 8.30 am so after a hearty breakfast I popped in for info on internet cafés and a laundrette. With marked-up map in hand I strode to the other side of town for what had been described as the o...

No sooner had my head hit the pillow back in Plasencia than I was sound asleep. But it did not last. Around midnight I was woken for the first time by noisy guests and this continued intermittently until 2.30 am, when the level of noise was extraordinary; as was the number of people making a noise! It seemed like I was the only person in the pla...

A little tired and dehydrated from the night before, we packed our bags and headed to Trujillo at 10 on Sunday morning. The ride was only about an hour; luckily I got to sleep on the way. We walked through town, quaint and sleepy on a Sunday morning, to get to the old part of town. Trujillo's old town reminded me much of that of Cáceres, but alm...

Cáceres, in northern Extremadura, was our next stop. It is a lovely and beautifully preserved Medieval town. Interestingly enough, the town was very well off in the thirteenth century and on through the Renaissance, so families built grand houses, which have more or less been continually occupied leading to their preservation and well kept condi...

We spent one week in Caceres, volunteering for a program that teaches English to Spanish Business men and women. The program is called VaughanTown. It is a program to help Spaniards with conversational English, not grammar, and that was a good thing because Jarrett would not be good in helping someone with English grammar. It was a well deserve...

Peter Garrett once sang, Conquistadors of Mexico. I knew a little about them, but there was more out there for me to learn. I also need to clean my ears out because when I drive, I don't really listen properly. The Story When my travel agent, my main man Maxi from Madrid was giving me ideas, he suggested Trujillo, as they say that the best food ...