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Day 8 – Peaceful places and unwanted side quests

Hello again everyone, today is the last day in Salamanca. Taking it very easy today.

Having talked with Mrs lady until 2am it was a late start for me. About 10.30 I leave the gaffe & head down for breakfast time – croissant and café con leche and some OJ with the order of the day. With the hangover sorted out I decided to check out Mrs ladys recommendations. 

First one was El huerto de calixta a lovely little peaceful garden sitting in what was left of the old city walls. It was muy tranqui I must say, second recco was this art museum which was rather baroque but they were strict about taking photos in there so none to show but it was very much about a lot of the fashions of the past century particularly during the interwar years. Some of it sexual some of it not. I’ll leave you to interpret that. Place is called Casa Lis if you want to googlearla (yes that is a legit Spanish word now)

Then siesta time & it comes time to head out for some tapas and beers. I do the usual thing of wandering round but it’s very busy and can’t get into anywhere where I’d have a seat at the bar so back to cafe escudos it was. That was heaving as well but eventually I’m able to get a seat at the bar & notice another guy there alone who ends up standing next to me (because it was still busy). Anyways he’s Spanish and starts talking to me so fk it lets have a bit of a yabber – I wanted to practice my lingo but I got more than I bargained for. 

This guy knew almost no English save for radio lingo as he was an off duty cargo plane pilot. He gets friendly with me but this is when things get wierd. For the 2nd time someone starts having an uncalled political rant with me about hot topics that could get the twitter police onto you back home – I unfortunately had now accepted the uncalled for political debate side quest during pub time mini game. Joder! This guy is proper going off about all this stuff then goes on to talk about Germany building bunkers for the next big one with Russia. Reckons we have 20 years at best before ☢️💥. None of it is a crack at me but this is going on & is making me feel very on edge.

He asks me if I want to go out but I tell him I’m tired I’m staying here (in safe harbor)! He drinks up pays his tab and leaves but has a smoke outside then hangs about for 5 then comes back in shakes my hand then leaves for real. I hang back for a bit before paying my own tab and making my way back via a different to usual route just in case. Obviously no harm done as I’m writing this today but it was a big paranoia moment.
Lesson learned next time this one comes up I’m hitting it with the I don’t know anything about anything & don’t want To! Seriously this is one @itssidders could make a guide about!
Tomorrow I am moving on to Madrid. Let’s hope the rng rolls us somebody nice next time we got to practice Spanish! Ostia! La puta madre coño! Es solo que tengo que decir!!