Thewesternprovinceblog

Hello everyone again! We’ve survived the first full week on the road! Welcome to Day 7 – a weekend in Salamanca!

So after getting back from Tordesillas I mozied on down back to the square for a well-earned glass of vino in this cafe bar where I’ve managed to build a bit of a rapport with the staff down in the square. Soon after it was nap time once again and back to the gaffe it was for some rest.

Coming out again I have a wander round and a little drink and a tapa in a few places but finding that striking up convos with people here is hard. The locals tend to have very insular social circles and it is difficult to break into them as anywhere in Spain really and other tourists don’t want to know either. So naturally I’m drawn back to the same two places! I have a few beers and bites in the square then it gets quite late so I head back to the other frequent place, a bar outside of my gaffe. 

The attempt is for a quickie then in by 12ish but then I get talking to one of the locals, a middle aged woman from here Everything in Spanish. We ended up chatting and drinking until about 2am talking about various things though the biggest topic tended to be a certain hot topic issue Spain has in common with the UK which has been causing quite a stir recently – “El Crisis de Dinghy” – Hey she started it not me honest! “If I speak i am in big trouble”.

By the time all that wrapped up we went our separate ways and I hit the hay at around 2am. Next day I decided to have an easy one. She also recommended some nice places to check out so I did those. It was not a bad day and we still got one more to go before Madrid. 

Tomorrow will check out some ruins. Meanwhile nap time and will see if the rng rolls us anything interesting tonight. See you later!