La Feria: basically festival week. Every pueblo has one and this week happens to be Salamanca's festival week. What this means: there are casetas everywhere and people drinking and celebrating all day and night for the next 10 days. A caseta is a small tent/building thats basically a bar brought out into the streets. There's hundreds of them all of the city and they each serve a drink (beer, wine, soda, water, etc.) and a pincho (an appetizer-sized snack that is the house special at that bar) for 1.80 euro (pretty cheap!). Aside from the casetas there are also a lot of bands, performances, and other activities all over the city. Needless to say it's going to be an exciting week. Last night we got a taste of real Salamanca night life (filled with people trying to get you to go to their bar by yelling "5 shots for 3 euros" or "first drink is free!!"). It was a good time, but a little overwhelming!
This morning we were all a little tired, so after sleeping extra late a friend and I went for a walk around the city. We got a chance to go inside La Catedral and it was amazing. It was the biggest cathedral I've ever seen. We also saw 2 weddings going on and people were caseta-hopping in full force even at 1 in the aftern
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(sorry that these are sideways, I haven't figured out how to rotate them yet...)
Now I'm off to search for a gym to join so I can work off all this food and drink. Pictures of a caseta to come once my friend posts her pictures from last night!
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(sorry that these are sideways, I haven't figured out how to rotate them yet...)
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