Extracurricular activities 21.09.2015 - 27.09.2015

A new week and new activities with Tía Tula. Here there is all the information about the opportunities to practice and improve your Spanish having fun:

Monday 21, 5:00 pm: Basketball – Come and play basketball in one of the city's basket field. 

Approximate duration: 1h30.

Tuesday 22, 6:30 pm: Visit to the cathedrals of Salamanca – Discover the history hidden behind the Salamanca's cathedrals while having a walk.

Approximate duration: 1h

Wednesday 23, 6:20 pm: Urban exhibition – We're going to the Barrio del Oeste and see the original decorations of its buildings.

Approximate duration: 1h

Thursday 24, 5:30 pm: Music workshop with Elena – Our teacher Elena will take us

Approximate duration: 1h

Friday 25, 6:20 pm: Photography Contest – Photography contest about Lights and Shadows on Salamanca. We will public on our social media the winner picture.

Approximate duration: 1h

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27: Excursions – Would you like to go to León and Astorga? Please ask our secretary for more information and take a look on this weekend programm.

Please don't forget that you need to sign up for each activity at the reception desk (in order to reserve your place). The minimum number of participants required fro each activity is usually three. Also, unless otherwise stated, the meeting point is Tía Tula school. Lastly, if there's no price mentioned in the description, the activity is free of charge. 

Try to participate in as many activities as you can; they are designed not just for you to have fun, but also to improve your knowledge of Salamanca and Spanish culture, and to put into practice the Spanish you have learnt in class. 

Casetas and Pinchos de Feria

On september 7th the whole Salamanca celebrated Santa María de la Vega (the Virgen de la Vega, Salamanca's patron as well as San Juan de Sahagún (we talked about in this Spanish post). 

Pinchos de la caseta Café Rúa.

Among all the activities happening during these Salamanca's Ferias y Fiestas, concerts, exhibitions and even more (you can see more in the program, in this pdf or you can get a brochure in the Tourist Office), there is one in particular all of us are waiting for.

One of the activities we love is going for pinchos at the 'casetas'. The whole city smells and offers you a wide variety of tastes. The Feria de Día is one of the greater attraction during Ferias y Fiestas: this year we can taste pinchos de feria and a drink for just 2 euros in the 99 casetas placed in different corners of Salamanca.

Pato en escabeche de naranja y salsa de arándanos,
el pincho de feria del restaurante El Bardo.

If you don't already know where to start your tapas tour, take a look at De Pinchos, a free app for smartphones with maps in which can find the casetas (like the one at the bottom of this post), all the cafés and their pinchos de feria and the rating left by other users. You can download it for free for iOS and Android. All the casetas, with their pinchos and music, will stay open until the 15th of september.

For the first time ever, this year there is a photography contest “Vive la Feria”, held on social media. To participate, you can just add the hashtag #vivelaferia to your pictures in Instagram or Twitter.

Ración de pulpo en la caseta de Galicia
(casetas regionales en el Campo San Francisco).

We also want to recommend you some must-do things: diez cosas que no deberías perderte de las Ferias y Fiestas.

Fajita de codillo confitado con salsa de manzana y miel, el pincho de feria de la caseta The Molly's Cross.