Salamanca 1/2

It always feels good to be in a place that you are familiar. I was extremely excited when I was visited Salamanca for the second time with ISA. The excitement, the good memories that I had when I was in Salamanca back in 2009 felt as though I am meeting my first love once again after a very very long time. Hoping to relive the fond memories that I had experienced in the past, I was eager to party harder than never before.

Salamanca’s Plaza Mayor is one of the most beautiful plaza mayor in Spain and possibly of the most beautiful plaza mayor in Europe as well. This trip to Salamanca was slightly different. As usual, the tours were in Spanish but it did not bother me because for the most part, I have heard the tour in English. Therefore, this time round, I had time to take more photos and took the opportunity to inspect the buildings and artifacts in much more detail.

Plaza Mayor just before night time.

Another view of the clock tower at Plaza Mayor de Salamanca

Just right after a quick shower when the sky started to clear before it went back to being cloudy and moody.

I have to admit that we were not that lucky because for the past couple of days during our visit to Salamanca, it was raining and the entire place was wet and soggy. There were very few people in Plaza de Mayor because of the rain and the cold weather. However, I was lucky to have came across this group of people:

While I was in Plaza de Mayor, I heard a group of rowdy group of people walking towards my way. It seems that some of them were drunk. I had no idea what was going on but i just pointed my camera towards them and took a few shoots of them.

Later on, this group of people started calling me chino! chino! They did not even ask me politely but acted as though it was my duty as the camera man because I had a DSLR. I helped took a photo and later asked them what was the occasion. Well, their friend in red is a bull fighter and they are celebrating his victory. I could not understand what sort of victory that they were celebrating due to my limited vocab but it was great having a noisy drunk group once in awhile to lighten things at Plaza Mayor.

When I was there in 2009, it was around mid-March and it was most probably much warmer compared to this time round. I never like the rain, it is spoils everything. It could be nice having the reflection but somehow it gives me the impression of being depressed and moody. I guess the mood is translated to the dressing style of the youth of Salamanca. In 2009, when I visited Salamanca, there were hardly any youth dressed up in punk outfit. However, 2 years later, I guess it became popular with the Spaniards in Salamanca to dress and act like a punk.

The girls were posing not for me, but for her photographer friend. I saw it and somehow like the entire punkish feel to it.

This is the style of dressing of college students in Salamanca. It is punk style. I wonder how did it spread to Salamanca?

Funky color hair and hairstyles.. Are they try to emulate the Americans? If they are, I must say they are 20 years behind because it looks like the style of teenage Americans back in the 90s.

to be continue...