58 things that you will only understand if you are from Salamanca
VOCABULARY
1) You measure the distance in paquí, pahí or pallí. **2) ** You are adventurous, you create your own routes and track whenever you can.
3) Do you use my girl or my boy as a vocative (from greengrocers to with your boyfriend, without age limit) .
4) You can be nice, good people and then nice (almost family).
5) stretch with style : what's up?
6) Before leaving home you ask yourself: Have I locked?
7) In exams you trust in miracles but you know that Quod natura non dat, Salmantica non præstat.
8) You accept Salamanca, but you proudly define yourself as charro.
9) And you presume to have the best Spanish in Spain.
10) Even though you say be careful that you drop it or the other day I dreamed of little dogs.
11) You do not eat sweets, but galguerías or galgás .
You take libraries very seriously
CUSTOMS AND HABITS
12) It's not a real summer without Novelty ice creams.
13) You miss trading cards in the Alamedilla (and chasing the peacocks).
14) You use the hat as an element to survive the cold.
fifteen) You secretly admire Ramontxu ** for wearing the charro cape on television **.
16) Ángel Rufino El Mariquelo ** (and his adventures on Facebook) **.
17) At the fairs you do not miss the bumper cars or the booths.
18) You've queued more to get a seat in a library for exams than to get into clubs.
19) **Leave at 12 (in the morning or at night) ** for wine and return at 8.
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the blue tide
SHOPPING
twenty-one) Going down Toro Street believing you're Pretty Woman on Rodeo Drive (to Barato and back again and again).
22) Simago.
23) Enter Perfumeries Avenue and feel the pride of the blue tide.
That "Ohhhhh" when the lights come on
MONUMENTS
24) You presume to have the most beautiful Plaza Mayor in the world.
25) Y the fourth oldest university in Europe.
26) You know that you can see heaven in a vault.
27) "Salamanca that enchants the will to return to her to all those who have liked the peacefulness of her home".
28) Closing any discussion about my town is the most beautiful with: “In Salamanca we have two cathedrals...”
29) Garrido is not Spain.
30) It is not clear to you how it is really pronounced the sports center "Bisburg" (Wurzburg).
31) You know an astronaut can go almost anywhere.
32) Stroll down the street company to reconcile with the world on a bad day.
You like Calle Compa a (and the Wi-Fi in El Alcaraván)
ANECDOTARY
33) “We said yesterday...”.
3. 4) The penalty of the day they closed the German Sánchez Ruipérez Library and the Breton theater.
35) nostalgia when remembering the old cinemas Salamanca (and to think that at least the Van Dyck Cinemas resist).
36) Michael, the man who plays the violin in the plaza del Liceo .
Gummies for everyone!
SALAMANCA THE NIGHT
37) Four past eleven under the clock.
38) At 12 in the Tuscan.
39) Entering Prior Street clueless and leaving with 57 flyers.
40) The icing on El Bolero.
41) Charro Rock? What's that? Do you mean the Miserere?
42) Going down the stairs of Paniagua as a risky sport.
43) You know that you don't need to leave the city to live your Erasmus (or be in the University) it is enough to go to the Irish Rover or the Camelot any night.
44) You think that Print before it was cooler (yes, you love Sabina's bowler hat).
Four. Five) You went to college New Year's Eve before I started dating in all news.
The charro version of the empenada: the hornazo
GASTRONOMY
46) the mug at Casa Ino or La Viga, the bravas in El Segundo, Mesón de Gonzalo and Tapas 2.0.
47) Typical chochos of Salamanca.
48) Your grandmother's dogs.
49) The hornazo , sanctified every Monday of waters.
fifty) The broken eggs with farinato from La Encina (after a "let's go spiked by Van Dyck").
51) In Vandyck: grilled ribs, loin in sauce or Moorish skewer at Café de Chinitas, El Minutejo, Rufo's or El Tenderete.
52) The chanfaina.
53) Ham? of Guijuelo.
54) The palm trees of two chocolates from Croissanteria Paris.
55) The Shake 12 of the Mandala.
56) Birdland's American Tea (and Its Good Times).
You know about ham and I would take you a vacuum-packed slice to the end of the world
TRANSPORTATION
57) You go (almost) everywhere on foot (and you are amazed at the fear of people in big cities to walk 30 minutes).
58) Your heart swells every time you return to Salamanca by bus/car and see this:
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