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Salamanca

Delicious food that looks bad for you

[Dec. 2022] I continue talking about our journey in Spain during the year-end and New Year holidays. The next day, we left Extremadura and went to Salamanca by bus. Salamanca is a university town described…

Zafra

Spain, Zafra

These are our photos taken in Zafra, Spain in 2022.

Zafra

Our priority was lunch

[Dec. 2022] We only stayed one night in Zafra, a town in the western part of Spain, and returned to Caceres in the afternoon of this day. We had a reservation for the 3:35pm bus,…

Zafra

Alcázar is now a hotel

[Dec. 2022] Next in Zafra, a town in western Spain, we went to Alcázar. Alcázar means a castle or a fort, and our guidebook describes it as a “castle”, but it seems more appropriate to…

Zafra

Life of nuns

[Dec. 2022] The second day in Zafra, a town in Spain near the border with Portugal, was cloudy and chilly unlike the day before. If you walk from Plaza Grande to Calle Sevilla, the shopping…

Zafra

Dinner on the day

[Dec. 2022] It’s dinner time in Zafra, a town in western Spain. The restaurant at Hotel Plaza Grande, where we were staying, had been praised on the internet, so we went to see it, but…

Zafra

Lovely hotel and town walk

[ Dec.2022 ] Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located…

Merida

Spain, Merida

These are our photos taken in Merida, Spain in 2022.

Merida

Light lunch and off we went to Zafra

[Dec. 2022] After visiting the Roman bridge and the Roman theatre and stadium in Merida, a town of Roman ruins in western Spain, we were quite tired and hungry. So we decided to have a…