Sunday September 8, 2014

A long lie-in and a lazy breakfast.  We eventually headed back into the city at 11:30.  Valladolid is a city of churches and convents.  We wandered the streets of the city, went back to some of the places that Hector had shown us last night, ate more tapas, drank some beer and eventually headed back to the house at 4:30.

The doors in Spain are incredible.  We spotted this one last night and had to find it again today.

This door is on a building that houses some military offices.

Last night Hector had shown us this octagonal plaza, apparently it had been a bull-fighting area.  Now it has retail on the bottom floors and apartments on the upper floors.

This is the square where the music was playing last night.  We are amazed at how quickly everything gets cleaned up.  The street sweepers are cleaning streets all the time in the cities in Spain.

There are some very nice buildings in Vallodolid.

We had caught the #18 bus into the city.  We saw a # 18 bus near the cathedral where we had got off the bus and stopped the bus.  We had assumed that there would be one #18 bus going in one direction.  Not in Spain there are two buses going in opposite directions of the city. When we realized we were not going in the same direction as we came into the city we thought maybe it would do a figure of 8 loop.  No we had to pay again to go back into the city and then switch to the other 18 bus and pay again to go to La Overula.

We arrived “home” at 5:30 Hector texted us to say he would meet us again in the city at 9:00pm.  We explained that we had an early start tomorrow and could not meet him that late.

He understood and he emailed us a route to take out of the city.  Our second warmshowers host in Spain and they are wonderful, generous people.  The saying “mi casa, su casa” – \”my home your home\” definitely holds true.  Hector had put beer and wine in the fridge told us to make ourselves at home and showed us his city.  When we were in the city at fiesta with his, he would not allow us to buy any drinks or tapas.  We found that a little difficult to accept, but he made it very clear to Ralf that we were his guests and would not allow us to buy any drinks.