Vaughan Town in El Barco de Avila, Feb. 9 - 14, 2025

 On Sunday morning I set off for another week at the Izan Hotel Puerta de Gredos - it is located at the base of the Gredos Mountains in western Spain in the town of El Barco de Avila.  We had our usual busy schedule each day.

On many of the one to one sessions, we walked to the beach on the Rio Tormes.

On the way into town, there is a sign that tells about the seven types of beans grown in this area.

One day, our entire group walked into town.  Among other things, some of us visited the castle.

 

The city library is upstairs in the building that was formerly the jail.  In the ground floor foyer, they have a model of what the town looked like in the 1500s when it was completely encircled by a wall.

At show time on Wednesday, I did my "Dinner on the Desert" presentation where I shared a first course of mesquite flour, a second course of crickets, desert of taffy and candy made from prickly pear cactus fruit, and after dinner liquor of tequila made from agave.

One of the group activities was this problem where we had to decide which nine people got to go to the island and which three would be left to die.

And then it was time for the certificate ceremony and to say goodbye.

Friday evening, back in Madrid I went to Restaurente Cafeteria Via22 for the regular meeting of the English Speaking Group.

 And then on Saturday I flew home to Phoenix from Madrid via Newark.