Misadventure Memoirs

Yup…Our chosen seats on the train trip from Segovia to Salamanca were facing the wrong way! Hence, the environs whipped by at a rate of knots in reverse, churning the tum and determining that we kept eyes down on our respective devices for the duration of the journey. 😊

Interesting last night in Segovia. The room next door (above our pillows) was a cacophonic theatre! Hard to say whether there were overnight renos occurring or if the forensic clean up crew, post a CSI investigation, had moved in to do their thing. It was ugly! Sleep was patchy. 😳

Newsflash! We got back on the Escalator Pony with our luggage at the railway station in Salamanca! So proud. 🥹 We took it like troopers. (Only because there wasn’t a lift!) Col went first (always the fall guy! 😂) but we negotiated it like champs and pretty sure there’s no residual PTSD! 

Arriving at our cute and eclectic apartment in Salamanca, we discover we’re three stories up sans elevator!! Shitballs! Also, we think we’re gonna hafta do a second ship home of shite! (Slightly cheaper than buying a second suitcase and paying excess baggage!). 

So we venture out in Salamanca for our reccy mission and find a splendid restaurant in Plaza Mayor where we order drinks and food…I had some delicious salty little nibble bits, but of course, my little friend had to explore the tripe option, which included snout and trotters! 👀 Eeewww! He invited me to partake and was disappointed when I declined. 😳 Sockets, gizzards and gelatinous shavings…I don’t f think so!

To end a fab day, we discover ‘Doctor Cocktail’ in a gorgey little side lane off the main street. My first order was a ‘Michelada’ – Corona, clamato juice, lemon and salt. It was quenching and delicious. Col ordered a ‘Doctor Fleming’ which was imbibable penicillin apparently!  Damned if I know what was in it, but it was delivered tableside in a very elegant stainless steel flask, complete with a glass containing chunked ice. Contents of the flask: black label whiskey, sherry, lemongrass honey + ?. Hoo wee!  😄

We stayed for their bar snacks which were the most delicious combo of salty, smokey paprika corn nibblets and various other (unknown) deliciousness and tiny bowls of lollies including raspberry/vanilla jubes. I swear if we were here any longer we would develop Ricketts and scurvy…who needs to eat real meals when drinks and snacks are this good?!? 😊