First, I received a phone call at 10 AM from the internet guy who I´ve been so patiently waiting for. I´m VERY glad I decided to not postpone my trip to Malta because I basically had to pay this man to come over and tell me that some cable box that was already in the wall was better than the one he was coming to install, so he left without doing anything and told me they were still going to send the modem and router, and that I had to hook them up myself. Wow, gotta love the business here...
Anyway, after that I was off to Mérida. We have a fellow American auxiliar staying at our piso for a few days. She´ll be working in Mérida so we decided to all take a trip out and explore the city. Mérida is the capital of Extremadura, but it´s part of the province of Badajoz. It´s actually smaller than Badajoz, but a much larger tourist destination because of its Ancient Roman ruins. In fact, I had already been to Mérida with API to see the ruins, although we hadn´t seen much else of the city. It was so much fun to go back to a place that I had seen before, it brought back a lot of fond memories. We were able to walk around the whole city in just a few hours. It has so much history, with a lot of beautiful architecture and random excavations all over the place. You can tell that many of the structures have been there since ancient times. It also seems to have not been hit as hard by the ´crisis´as other cities in Spain, especially Badajoz. For the most part it was a very pretty, clean city and we never saw any areas that didn´t look safe. The pictures below show the route that we walked as well as a picture of the Plaza de España in the downtown area.
It's funny how you like Mérida so much, as I always have had it so close, and there are so many Roman ruins in Spain. Anyway, that doesn't mean I don't like it, you surely should go to a representation of some Roman play in the old anphiteatre some day.
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