Escaped Extremadura! Four days here in Salamanca. Yeah!. Injury recovery time needed. Avoidance of some really crappy accommodations needed. Two nights at the NH and two nights at the Parador. We were not able to add two nights to the Parador as this is a big holiday weekend, all Saints Day, then Day of the Dead.

Mornings now in the low forties, days in the upper fifties. Very cold wind today as we are not as yet adapted to the change.

Moving away now from the heavily Iberico pig area. Still pigs here of course but the number of farms fewer. Different terrain, maybe more expensive land.

Today we are out of the mountains; rolling hills and a great university town with much to see. We ate some good late breakfast food and then walked about for a couple of hours getting a general lay of the city. A few spots remembered. Tomorrow we will tackle the two big cathedrals, the old and the “new.”

Salamanca, being a University city is full of young and middle aged. Not all old and empty like the rural areas.

Went into one cathedral but we decided to wait until tomorrow for a visit. I walked around the ticket window (some fussing from the attendant) and peeked. Said to her, looks like Leon. Yes, she said.

Speaking of ticket windows. In the North and other places I do not remember ever having to pay to go into a Catholic cathedral. Into the museum or underbelly, yes, but not into the church to look around. Now it is generally 5 euro.

As I remember the past, Catholic places free entry, Protestant places generally charged, too few other faiths sampled to have a good summary for them.

As Judi said, they can build a bridge for 2000 years and we can’t even build one for 50 years.

Late afternoon nap and early (8pm) dinner at Vinodiario. An excellent meal, especially compared with the last few days.