Salamanca, Madrid, Barcelona

Early last week, we arrived in Spain. We spent a few lazy days in Salamanca, with its college-town ambience and sun-soaked sandstone old city. We strolled the streets for the 4 days and nights we were there.

Since the city we wanted to go to, Santiago de Compostela, was an 8-hour-and-70-euro-detour, we decided to visit Madrid instead. We had amazing tapas and churros con chocolate and enjoyed the public gardens more than those of any other major city we have been to.

After a few days in Madrid, we decided it was time to move on and took a 6 hour ride to Barcelona, where we have been walking the streets with thousands of other tourists and soaking in the modernist and gothic architecture. The Sagrada Familia has progressed quite a bit since the first time I was in Barcelona which was incredible to see, in addition to the crazy houses Gaudi designed and built decades ago (one of which, the Casa Milà, was undergoing construction so we only saw a false front over the scaffolding).

We aren't sure where we are headed to next, but we will make our way down south and eventually to Morocco in the next week or two. 

Photos all credited to Brendan