Monday, January 12, 2015

albaraccin and cuenca

on saturday morning we left for a little road trip....there is a town called albaraccin that's about 3 hours away from madrid...this town is one of the few medical towns that are left....it's called one of the most beautiful villages in europe...so we were off!

it was a nice drive...easy, not much traffic...and then, we got on this little tiny road...i thought it was a someones driveway almost...we went through all these little towns, and didn't see anyone...we wondered where everyone was...it was weird...they were cute little towns...you wonder what people do that live in these little towns...the scenery was beautiful...

we arrived in albaraccin...the gps was guiding us to our hotel...but, we got on a street that ended in stairs...not the street we needed...poor austin having to drive these tiny streets...found our hotel...it was an older hotel, but, clean with a good bathroom...sort of cabin feeling....we wandered around the old city...it's up on a cliff...i don't know why or how they built this cities like that...but, it's beautiful...with a big wall around it..we climbed up to the wall, which i was thrilled i could do this...i hurt my knee a few days before i came on this trip...it's finally getting a bit better...so i was happy i could get up there!!!  i'ts up in the mountains, so it was cold...austin discovered trout in the river...we froze outside until the restaurant opened at 8...although, we went inside at about 7:20...it was sooooo cold!









this morning we  had a breakfast...they have a thing here...it's churros and dipping chocolate...they don't have 'hot chocolate', but, they have melted chocolate that you dip your stuff in....it's delicious!  then, we decided to drive to cuenca....it was such a beautiful drive...over the mountains...windy road...but, so pretty...saw a frozen river...a bit of snow...just gorgeous scenery...there is so much empty land!  it's fantastic....


then we got to cuenca,  is another old city built on a cliff....it was really cool...we walked across this bridge overlooking a gorge, then up into the city....

finished our drive home...and our little adventure!!

                                     




                                        

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