the clumsy melburnian: rrroooooaaaaaaaaarrr (Leon)

I went to Leon on the weekend, (the Leon in Spain not France.) It is very pretty, very different to Salamanca. It actually reminded me a bit of London, Eva said it reminded her of Germany. I went with two friends from Tia Tula (the college I'm at in Salamanca) Eva and Julie who are from Germany and Hungary respectively and met up with Nat (my friend from home).

We had a very nice weekend - wandering around and looking at pretty buildings and streets and drinking coffee and sitting in parks. The cathedral in Leon is very famous and was quite beautiful, though I have to say that I like Salamanca's better. We also saw about 12 weddings or so. Nat and I were standing at the back of the cathedral taking it all in - I want to recount an exert of the conversation.

Me) There's a Leon in France too isn't there?

Nat) Yeh....but it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't mean tiger.

Me) Does it mean lion?

Hysterical laughter. Nat's Spanish is getting really good. (Well it actually is but it was a funny mistake. Maybe you had to be there.)

On Saturday night we went to a bar to get some tapas when Nat and I started talking to a Spanish couple who were locals to Leon. They were maybe the friendliest people I've ever met. The six of us ended up spending the rest of the night with them (as they spoke clearly using lots of hand gestures so we could actually understand everything they were saying!) and they took us around to all the best tapas at all the best places. We also saw Indiana Jones (who I gather was attending a bucks night).

On Sunday we went to a Museum of Contemporary Art - which has won an award for the building. It was closed for siesta when we got there (siesta is really annoying sometimes..) so we waited for an hour to go in and then it was pretty funny how bad it was. It was modern art at its most pretentious... a pile of sand with a boot on it... a giant X. But the building was really cool.