journey through the old world.

from madrid to cedeira, we have to travel through a province in spain, called castilla y leon. a region and province of spain that is decribed in my textbooks in school. as i have said, the philippines was a spanish colony before, and in my elementary time in the early 80's our history textbooks was still biased on spain and very conservative.

this land of spain is very old, it was two kingdoms - castille and leon - formed together as the old kingdom of castilla y leon. it is very very strange, because in the philippines, in the colonial times and i am 100% sure to this date - the people in the philippines do not refer the spanish people as "spanish" or "spaniards" but rather - "kastila" (castillan) i took this for granted and never debated about it, it was a shame because i love history. and now all the things ive learned are coming back to me as i am travelling this dry, hot, arid and humid part of spain.

it looked like we were straight in a western movie! the sky was soooo clear and blue, the horizon seemed endless - left and right are patches of yellow and gold earth, with beautiful fields of  rapsöl (rapeseed) here and there.

i really really really wanted to sleep, but how?!! ok i did, but only for some short moments, as i dont want to miss every single moment of "madre patria" yes i was greedy, i want to savor every moment of it.

simply a beautiful country, and i am in love.

*disclaimer: i put some pics from the internet*