Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain
After nine months in Madrid and after having traveled to many parts of Spain, my desire to see more places had just gotten more and more intense. At times when I had the itch to travel but no one else could go, I went at it alone. My very first trip to Salamanca was one of those trips. I found Salamanca an amazing city. Small but absolutely full of historic, old, and picturesque buildings. I remember one female tourist asking me if I was an architecture student given that I sat staring at the city's humongous Old Cathedral for a very long time as if I studied all the minutest details. Little did I realize too that I would one day be a graduate of Spain's oldest, most famous, and most prestigious university, the Universidad de Salamanca one day. Go to my entry on Salamanca from 2003 and 2004 for pictures of the city's sights.
This was taken in a small town outside the city of Salamanca named Alba de Tormes. Its claim to fame was its churches which housed some relics of Saint Teresa of Avila. That's the centuries' old Roman Bridge behind me.
In front of the Iglesia de San Juan de la Cruz
From one church to another, here I was at the Iglesia de Santa Teresa where a Thai family whose patriarch was a high ranking diplomat to Europe, got spooked by the finger relic of Avila's most famous saint.
Standing next to Avila's Cuatro Postes