Saturday 28 May A back roads experience
We left our lovely lakeside retreat and headed south via the back roads again. We discovered the B roads we were travelling on were also the roads pilgrims on the Via de la Plata route to Santiago de Compostela walked. We passed a few hardy pilgrims head down into the rain, we shared their pain. I have to say the pilgrims on this route have a real challenge, long distances between towns and a lot of road walking. One chap was in the middle of huge stretch, all alone battling the weather, impressive.
(Just a note, I have given myself blanket permission for spelling and grammatical errors due to no actual keyboard and brief time on free Wi-Fi...so I get a free pass from my web editor pals👍)
Zamora - on the north bank of the Duro river. The Santa Inglesia Cathedral de Zamora is a mix of a Byzantine dome, a Romanesque tower and a neo classical cloister. The view across the river is stunning. Shame it was a dull, drizzly day.
We left our lovely lakeside retreat and headed south via the back roads again. We discovered the B roads we were travelling on were also the roads pilgrims on the Via de la Plata route to Santiago de Compostela walked. We passed a few hardy pilgrims head down into the rain, we shared their pain. I have to say the pilgrims on this route have a real challenge, long distances between towns and a lot of road walking. One chap was in the middle of huge stretch, all alone battling the weather, impressive.
(Just a note, I have given myself blanket permission for spelling and grammatical errors due to no actual keyboard and brief time on free Wi-Fi...so I get a free pass from my web editor pals👍)
Zamora - on the north bank of the Duro river. The Santa Inglesia Cathedral de Zamora is a mix of a Byzantine dome, a Romanesque tower and a neo classical cloister. The view across the river is stunning. Shame it was a dull, drizzly day.
Salamanca -the beautiful capital of the Castille & Leon region, a UNESCO World Heritage site and known as the golden city due to its sandstone buildings. It has been ruled by Celts, Romans, Muslims and the Spanish and the architecture reflects this. As we went round and round trying to find a park we came across the Universidad Salamanca, founded in the 1100's it was the intellectual centre of Spain in the 15th/16th centuries. We had a birds eye view of the historico area, not sure if we should have been driving through there but we eventually found a parking building and explored on foot.
We wandered through the Plaza Mayor, which was used for bull fighting until the 19th century. The Plaza is enormous and can hold 25,000 people and there were many groups out promenading, a great spot to sit and people watch.
Just outside the Plaza is my pic for sculpture of the day, stunning.
We left Salamanca and looked for a place for the night and after driving down many a country lane we ended up in Bejar, in the Sierra park area. The roads we ended up on were more pot hole than road and we were getting tired, so Bejar it was. Bejar is a mountain village with a textile industry history but now the town supports skiing, hiking and the national park. OK for a night, just.
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