segovia.

Oh my goodness, what a crazy couple of days.  We arrived in Segovia (about a 30 minute high-speed train ride from Madrid) to a train station surrounded my cows in the pasture.  We made it to the IE University, an old Monastery transformed into college campus, for a design charette.  One of the professors who used to teach at IIT is now the head of the architecture department at IE so he organized a whole workshop for us.

It started off pretty cool, with demonstrations of esgrafiado, a spanish facade technique from lime.  Then we were sent off into the city of Segovia to find examples.  Would have been fun, except once again it was raining.

Yesterday we spent the entire day working on our projects.  Trying to get a ton of work done in a very limited amount of time.   Very limited.  It was frustrating to be stuck inside a (freezing cold) studio the whole day instead of exploring Segovia.

Finally, early this afternoon, we finished the charette.  We were free.  So I went exploring.  I was going to see Segovia or die trying.  It was a beautiful day and actually pretty warm!  I just wandered, making sure I hit up all the big sights, and enjoyed the city.  It was so nice to just sit on a bench in the park and relax.

Segovia is a crazy beautiful and fun little town and I would love to go back someday.  But for now, it's back to Paris, and then back to The States in 6 1/2 short weeks!