Melissa and Klas's Journey: Siesta in Salamanca

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We both like to travel, especially to visit family and friends around the world. Coming from Australia and Sweden and having family in Texas and California, most of our trips are to these places. And now we've embarked on a very long trip, visiting about 30 countries, so we thought we'd share our journey with you...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Siesta in Salamanca

Plaza Mayor - our hotel is just around the corner

One of many small parks in Salamanca

We arrived last night by train in Salamanca, Spain. We really enjoyed our sightseeing today. Salamanca is very clean (i.e. no business left by stray dogs) and is not too big with a population of around 200,000. A lot of buildings are from the 1400s and 1500s with a lot of Roman and Gothic architecture.

Our hotel is in a great location, right off the main square Plaza Mayor. So it is also very convenient for siesta time. A lot of places closed during part of the afternoon so we had a late lunch and then went back to our hotel for siesta before heading back out to sightsee again. This is the life!

Tomorrow we`re taking the train to Madrid.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Hi Melissa & Klas,
You call it siesta time, I call it granny nap, I have it every Sunday afternoon. It's also part of my culture, culture of old age.
The photos have been great, glad to see you are looking well and happy.
Be safe, take care, love you both
Aunty; May 25, 2007 at 3:35:00 AM PDT