Thewesternprovinceblog
A 🏴 history nerd travelling The New World. ¿What could possibly go wrong? Join me on my way to The fabled lands of Ar Wladfa 🇦🇷
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Days 12 & 13 – Admin, flying and arrival in CDMX Hello, good morning from #Mexico ! Finally we are here!! Blog posts can now resume. I am going to skip over most of the details of the last 2 days but to sum it up Thursday was admin day – had to sort things out related…
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Day 11 – An Unplanned visit to Segovia Hola Todos. Today was a bit of a different one as in mentioned I wanted to do another day trip somewhere. What I originally had in mind was to go to Toledo, Castille’s old capital but it was not meant to be, long story short there were…
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Day 10 – EU4 IRL and a new friend Hello everyone again! Today was a good day. Leaving off after last nights rather quiet finish I was up and running in good order to do another trip. Today’s was particularly special because we were off to a very special place. Our first monument from the…
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Day 9 – Madrid. Hello everyone. This one will be somewhat short since nothing particularly noteworthy happened on the last night in Salamanca and arriving in Madrid has been equally uneventful. Today I was up about 09:00 as the train was not until 10:40 and it was a slow start all round. I head to…
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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…
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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…
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Day 6 – History lessons for the future road ahead. Good morning everyone! Today is an exciting day and the first proper excursion of the trip. This is one of an educational nature as it is in my opinion a must do before a trip to the Spanish speaking Americas, and this trip is a…
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Day 5 – A lost day in Salamanca! Hello everyone and good afternoon. Sorry for the sudden halt yesterday but after we dropped out of the Cantabrias there wasn’t much to see other than thousands of shrubland as far as the eye could see. There had been a signal problem on the line so it…
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Day 4 – Hitting the rails to rails to Salamanca! Good morning everyone eleven again. Today we head for the heart of Old Castilla y León. I will be there for a few days before heading to Madrid. Might even have enough time to do a reel to 2 let’s see how we get on.…
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Day 3 – Begin act 2 – Spain – exploring Santander. Hello everyone, today was the first full day in Spain and the first day we haven’t had somewhere to need to be by. The blighty leg as always had been pretty challenging and I was feeling a little bit tired, so an easy one…
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