Cuenca, Part 2

Last weekend, Ashly, Haley, and I headed off to Cuenca for the weekend to see the beautiful city and to hang out with my beautiful friends!  As a welcome change from last time I went, there is now a train from Albacete to Cuenca that only takes 45 minutes as opposed to a 2 hour ride to a town outside of Madrid and then another 3 hours to Cuenca. Needless to say, the trip was less exhausting than the last one.

When we got to Cuenca, we dropped our bags off at Corinna's place and then all met up with Helen and Jaclyn for lunch.  To my delight we all shared a Tortilla de patata--pretty much my favorite Spanish dish, haha, and had a great time catching up.  The girls all had stuff do to  after that, so Haley, Ashly, and I went to go explore the old town for the rest of the day, and what a beautiful day it was!

First we started off at the Casas Colgadas, went to the modern art museum, and then walked to the top of the old town and admired the beautiful view of Cuenca as the sun was setting! It was a gorgeous day!

Me, Ashly, and Haley enjoying the day in Cuenca!

The Casas Colgadas

View from the top of the old town.

Halers taking in the view

And Ashly enjoying the view as well!

We all huddled up and watched the sun set together!

This is blurry, but I still really like it!

After that, we went back over to Corinna's and met up with the girls to go to Foster's Hollywood for dinner.  For those of you who don't know what that is, it is an American style restaurant.  Obviously, since we are in Spain, it was a little different than say, a TGIFriday's, but my Quesadillas were still pretty good. 

Ashly and Haley went back to Villa the next morning due to prior commitments, but I stayed, and Corinna, Jaclyn, and I went on a beautiful hike that gives you the view of the back of the old town.  It is called the "Camino de San Julian".  San Julian used to take a pilgrimage up the path and pray and make baskets of food to feed the hungry.  It was so cool, but sorry Mom and Siti -- I stood on some pretty high cliffs that would make you yell at me :). 

Corinna and I!

After that, we met up with Helen and headed back to Corinna's and watched an episode of Criminal Minds that still haunts me (Thank you, Jaclyn), and a movie with Catherine Zeta Jones called...No Reservations?  It was alright, a normal chick flick.  

Well, it wouldn't be a visit to Cuenca without a visit to El Quinto Pecado for some great Tapas, so we headed over there and then to a place that makes good Tinto de Verano.  Also, there was a guy at the second place that was literally sticking his face in this ice cream cake that the owners had put out for people to eat.  Needless to say, no one else ate any of it, and then the guy just took it with him when he left, leaving ice cream splattering all over the floor upon his exit.  Very strange, but also very funny. 

The next morning, all of us made a delicious brunch of Crepes, potatoes, and eggs.  Very healthy. Very yummy :).  

So, that was Cuenca, round 2! I'll definitely be going back again for my friends' birthdays in May, and I look forward to that!

More to come soon!

Mary