Plasencia

We had a good nights sleep in Merida considering we were right in the city Center and at 9am we left before the streets got busy.
We had a 100 mile drive ahead of us and as soon as we got on the motorway we realised how windy it was and we had to drop the speed down to just 50mph.
We were heading for the city of Plasencia today and 20 miles before we got there we stopped to fill up our LPG tanks and the wind just seemed to increase.
At 11:30am we arrived at our parking spot. The Puente Nuevo ( new bridge) car park and the wind was now gusting up to 40mph.
We were here for me to ride a Via Verde but after getting changed and unhooking my bike I decided it was a very bad idea and swiftly put it back on the back.
It was a Sunday so very few would be open so we decided to have a lazy day and watch kids films on the TV.
At 4pm with the wind still howling we took a walk into the city and we were surprised. From the outside the city looks like a pit, but getting into the city center via outside public escalators took us into a very historic center with some huge buildings dating back to the 14th & 15th century.
There were 3 huge churches, a monastery, a convent, a huge indoor market place, an orphanage and a huge house that is now the modern day law courts. Obviously being Sunday nothing was open but it was interesting and we needed the walk.
We got back to Wanda just after 5pm and it was still windy so we spent the rest of the evening inside.Leggi altro