Step 20 - He Acebo - Ponferrada
played tourist visit to Ponferrada and short stage. I did the entire stage with Emmanuel and Arianna, who are both very nice. Emmanuel is a French no more, he has lived long enough in Portugal and speaks fluent English, and live in French Basque country and in fact right on the border with Spain (Bayonne), and is a much more sociable and friendly the rest of French I know. Arianna is a very nice Italian girl, but deep down is like the other girls Italian I've met: pleasant and attractive. The truth is that spending the previous day with them and all the stage that day was great. I said goodbye to them in Ponferrada, after drinking a Coca Cola because they were not going to stay, wanted to go and I wanted to see the city.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Where Can I Buy Planters Cheese Curls?
beautiful City by the way, did not expect was well Ponferrada. It is a young city, the historical part is very pretty, and the new part where the town center is a set of shopping streets that have nothing way inferior to the central areas of large cities.
visited all the good tourist should not miss, the clock tower, which is very nice, the Town Hall Square, the Museum of El Bierzo, with a couple of interesting presentations on prehistory of El Bierzo, the museum of radio, with a stunning antique pieces, and the castle, which is now under construction.
Everywhere was off to 1.25 € for youth card or student, and there was no problem to take pictures without flash. The kindness and good manners of people of El Bierzo is made to see.
The Museum of El Bierzo is very interesting, I never knew this area was so important and had as much history as it is. In fact it was an independent province of León for two years in the nineteenth century, and indeed its features have little to do with the rest of León, it seems that the pilgrims would have us entrance to Galicia a bit less abrupt.
The radio museum is very elegant, a long time to see it well because there is much to hear, but still has very interesting pieces. It is very good idea to separate the part devoted to Luis del Olmo the rest of the museum.
The castle of the Templars is another scroll, worth a walk inside, but more will deserve it when it completes the work, really do not know if this castle was originally roofed, but either way looks good, is a joy to invest our money in cultural property and rehabilitate it, and basically the Templar castle is one that has undergone more changes in its history, if it is not going to be much problem.
After all this trip, I had dinner in the Bierzo Plaza hotel, where I met Paco, a man of about 70 who asked for a cigarette when we were dining in El Acebo the day before and that recognized my accent immediately Madrid. I also met him at the Museum of El Bierzo the same day, I found a nice person and get him in the restaurant with the intentions of mine ordered a dining table for two. I met a special person with plenty of character that already stands out: when you look in the eye. As he says, is a lucky person, lucky enough to have everything you wanted to have in this life with all the effort of having fought for everything he has and no one has given him nothing but luck with it all. He said I was agnostic, did not have the fortune or misfortune to have faith, because that is something you have or not, but you can not blame the one who does not not have it. Even agnostic was the way he had always wanted to, because a big flow of people from the same place for so many centuries, had left a lot of energy on the road after you used yourself, you took and were leaving later. He believed in people, in man, and reminded me of myself some years ago when he was not a little bit of faith that might have now.
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