July 2024.
Our dear friends were getting married in their hometown in Valladolid, so we all traveled there for the wedding and a few days before and after. It was so so hot, but also a lot of fun, and what a beautiful wedding it was!
The start of the trip was a bit rough tho. Trouble always seems to find us. We chose a bit risky way to go. Took a night bus to Riga from Tallinn and a direct early morning flight from there to Barcelona. Assuming the flight was on time, we only had 1.5 hours to get to the central train station and catch a train from there to Madrid. But, Ryanair was even early, so we made it in good time, were early in the train station and even had time to have breakfast. But then the trouble came from where we did not expect it. The train was around an hour late and on the road there was some construction and traffic, so it was around two hours late, which made us lose our connection to Valladolid. As it was not our fault we managed to talk them into changing our tickets for free for a later train. It's in the middle of summer, so by now they were expensive.. and everyone was traveling. The next couple of trains were sold out, so they booked us on a train at 6 pm. Fine, we went to a nearby bar, cooled down and went back by 6. Got into the train and then.. bam, electricity out.. of all the trains. Some other train knocked a cable out. They were trying to work sth out, we were all in the train, but without AC it soon got over 40 degrees inside as well. So we had to go back to the terminal. Almost all trains were late or cancelled. Ended up waiting for hours in complete chaos, until some regional train was going from a lower level of the station to the direction many needed to go. It was one train and lots and lots of people, so everybody ran. Some rockstar maintenance worker opened a "secret" corridor, so we caught a short-cut to the lower levels and got on that train, but instead of a fast 1-hour ride, that one went for 3 hours. We were supposed to be in Valladolid by 3 pm, made it there past midnight! But made it, and it definitely was memorable!
Pool-time and picnic, shenanigans in the old town, boat-party on river Pisuerga, dinner at a lovely italian restaurant La Mafia and afterparty at La Fundicion club/restaurant/terraces.
The next days, explored the town, enjoyed some lovely bars and food places and tried local cider.
Also, visited a nearby town of Tordesillas, the town where in 1494 Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas and divided the world, where each could, explore, trade and claim lands.
Frozen milk dessert on another hot day!
Iglesia de San Pedro
And the wedding day! First part was the traditional wedding ceremony in a lovely little church, after which the ceremony was held in a hotel. ¡vivan los novios!
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