Keys Corner

I am quite “under the weather” – I arrived back here with the beginnings of diarrhea, which has had me travelling every hour or two, day and night, between the bathroom and either my bed or a chair ever since we got in on Saturday. Thank goodness it didn’t start 24 hours earlier, or I would probably still be stuck in Spain.

Right now, I’m not feeling like devoting much time to the blog, but here are one or two photos we took in Salamanca which is where we did our Spanish course. We really enjoyed both the classes at the school and Salamanca, which is a very laid back student town, with an extensive old quarter consisting of many well preserved sandstone buildings. There is a large (38 000 students) University there, which was founded in 1218, making it one of the oldest in the world. So, many of the buildings in the old town are university buildings. Most of the teachers at our language school were graduates from the University, which offers a large number of language courses.

One of the highlights of the town is the cathedral – actually two cathedrals: the “old” cathedral and the “new” cathedral, which are directly joined together. The stonework of the main portal to the new catherdral was restored in 1993, when the stonemasons made the additions shown below, They weren’t noticed immediately and caused quite stir when they were discovered, but are now well-known and loved features of the facade:

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