Plaza Mayor in Salamanca. This plaza is from the 18th century and is one of the main attractions for both tourists and Spaniards. It's basically just a big flat plaza enclosed by this 4 story building/wall with lots of shops and restaurants along the bottom. It was constantly filled with people while we were there, during the day and most of the night. by the way, we had some of the best kebab wraps of our entire lives in salamanca at these restaurants called doner kebab, so delicious. The weather in Leon and Salamanca was quite odd. We were in Leon for 2 days and each day was really warm, with temps in the middle 70s. At night, however, it would drop to the 40s (not 100% sure but it was cold). Then when we went to Salamanca, it was cold pretty much all day and night. We even had some random bouts of hail and snow while in Salamanca. That didn't stop me from taking my skateboard out one day, and without too much searching I found a really small skate park and had a short session in the hail.
This is the view from our room on the 7th floor in a really nice hotel in Leon. 
This is part of our group at the top of a mountain trail in Covadonga. Covadonga is an area in Picos de Europa with some really big lakes surrounded by huge mountains. It was pretty warm that day ( i was wearing a t-shirt and pants) but there was still snow on parts of the trail we walked on. In this picture (from left to right): Gonzalo and Greta (our teachers/group coordinators), Emma (Greta's daughter), Lauren, a professional photographer from Asheville (Greta's friend), somebody being blocked by a bookbag, and Nadia.
One of the Covadonga lakes.
A great view from the trail in Covadonga.
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