Tryp Medea Mérida

Well, finally I’m fulfilling my promise and writing about my apartment! (I also put up a picture of my school on the other blog.) I’d just like to start off with the statement that I love my apartment! It’s on the third floor so I have a bit of a bird’s eye view of the buildings around me. Also, since I am up high, there are always birds flying by my windows. (Gives that phrase a little bit of a literal meaning, doesn ...

We left Lisboa and travelled through miles and miles of open country in which grew cork and olive trees and lots and lots of vines. We visited Evora which is a World Heritage site. It is a walled city with lots of churches, narrow cobbled lanes and Roman ruins.

As we were becoming used to in Portugal, there are quite a few Chinese Bazaars-selling clothes, household goods,electical goods and the sort of stuff you find in Pound Shops in England. Even in a ...

... if you ignore the grafitti). Back to the hotel to be handed keys to another room while they fixed the hot water. Must have been quite a problem because no sooner had I carried the last item out of my old room than a couple of plumbers squeezed past me and started knocking a hole in a wall! It was then back into town to update the blog and confirm my accommodation in Monesterio tomorrow night. Although the meal I´d had earlier wasn´t great it was nevertheless pretty ...

... you'll discover the treasures that Mérida has to offer visitors. After a long bus ride from Seville, we arrived in Mérida at 11:30 and went straight to the town's most famous ruins, which are located in a nice park area. The theatre and amphitheatre are truly amazing and quite well preserved. The theatre is the best of its kind in Spain. We climbed along the theatre and amphitheatre for about an hour while it rained on ...

... poder montar la tienda y pasar la noche en caso de que nadie se anime a recogernos con su coche. Ya es la hora de comer y los pocos coches que pasan por nuestra derecha no se animan a nada, sólo unos pocos se atreven a sonrreírnos cuando en el cartel que les mostramos leen un café en Zafra??? Aunque las horas que pasamos en la rotonda se hacen muy duras por la falta de gente que se apunte a desplazarnos de una forma motorizada, el frío y en algunos ...

Joseba: "Después de pasar nuestra primera noche cervecera en Salamanca y levantarnos con el correspondiente dolor de cabeza, Sébastien propone pasar el fin de semana en casa de una chica latina que conoció durante la noche y que ella nos la había ofrecido para unos días pero yo creo que la opción de abandonar Salamanca por el gasto que supondría pasar dos días más en la ciudad es la más acertada. La verdad que a ...

... we went into the Alcazaba. According to the signs inside, this was the largest walled citadel built by the Moors. There isn't much left inside, but the walls have been restored so we took a walk. Then memories of India came flooding back. A guy came up and in Spanish, asked me for some money. I gave him the old no hablo Espanol. I did then say, matedoyouspeakStrayan !!! He looked at me and realised that loser street was where ...

The Story Generally in life, if I want to go somewhere, I don't tend to bounce my ideas off of anyone because the majority of people I know and meet have not travelled as vastly as Lucy and myself. However, there are a few, like Paul, who for a Pom has been to some obscure places, then there is Mini Me for WW1 stuff, and for other places, especially Spain, there's my main man Maxi from Madrid. Many years ago, we spoke about a little place called ...

We continued the drive from Évora, Portugal across the border into Mérida, Spain. First, we passed through Badajoz across the border. Nothing special... a small border town. We checked into the local Parador "Via de la Plata" -- offically sanctioned inns that occupy historial buildings. This one was a former 18th century monastery built on Roman ruins of a temple for the Concord of Augustus. Mérida is simply a beautiful city to wander around in. It was ...

... i´ve done in the past little while. I realized that i haven´t taken any pictures yet of the gorgeous plaza mayor or any of the other artchitectual masterpieces in salamanca. I´ll make sure to remedy that in the near future and upload some of those a little bit later.