Ciudad Rodrigo

(Just another reminder to the few who are getting this as email, it's not an email it's a blog notification.)


Ann and I were stranded, roommate less, friendless, in Salamanca the weekend of October 9-12. Saturday, October 10, was spent roaming around Salamanca, quite aimlessly but actually for 7 hours. Lots of roaming. Lots of Museums. (ok, 2 museums...). But lots of walking.

One museum was very modern and had confusing videos for us to watch. I disliked it. It made me irritable in an irrational sort of way. Just annoying, pointless, "artsy" videos.

Video Example One:

Starts off with music: Jazz saxophone. Then you see a room, black and white coloring. The room is dingy, it's vacated. It looks as if it's in the upstairs of an abandoned building. Old. Dark. Dusty. And full of shoes. Lots and lots of shoes. And there are ladders. about 4 ladders. And a man in a sort of 20s outfit.. film noir style... is walking, sneaking, while a black saxaphonist walks through the hallway outside of the room. We see his silohette through the door, through windows. And this woman, wearing a white dress, comes in with a gun and starts shooting the man. He performs some sort of ballet spin and falls to the ground. Then he gets up, gets shot again, and falls. THIS GOES ON FOR 10 MINUTES. And there is reddish dust that comes from his shirt that is supposed to be blood. But it's so weird. He keeps running and getting shot. and shot and shot. And the woman laughs in a non-convincingly-evil-annoying sort of way. And it was awful.

That is that story.

We also saw a movie called Agora. Very good. I saw it in Spanish, missed a lot of it I'm sure, but got enough to like it. Very pretty cinematography at least.

anyway. SUNDAY OCTOBER 11

We had decided to take a day trip to Bejar, went to the bus stop and then saw that the bus was confused and left early. SO we randomly picked a bus, well not randomly because we went on the first bus to depart, and we ended up in this place called Ciudad Rodrigo.

Very pretty place.

Here are some nice pictures.

The Cathedral:

The Robin Hood

The View from the Wall

And the wall

The wall surrounds the inner city... is very cool looking. I felt epic while walking around it.. getting sun burnt... but you can see lots of things. And it was so warm to look at. Warm colors. Castilla Leon generally seems to have warmish looking stones. Even the Cathedrals.

Anyway: New Album for Ciudad Rodrigo. Seville and Granada and London in the process of being made.

NEW ALBUM HERE