Roman Bath and Public Toilets Zaragosa

We really enjoyed our visit to the Roman baths and toilets. 

Here are some photos

The bath itself was huge. It was also in excellent condition.

What was more fascinating than the baths

were the public toilets.

These marble seated toilets ran all the way around the walls. They had running water underneath to catch what went in the hole, and there was clean water running in front of the toilets for people to rinse out their sponges. Apparently there was no embarrassment in doing this duty in front of the whole world. In fact I’ve read in other places that businessman would sit and do business on the toilet, much like they do on their telephones today. Ha ha!

Pretty nice toilets!

More Food Prices

 Today we are in Zaragosa for two nights and so we went shopping and here is what we spent

Mixed Salad ready to go. This is enough for two people to have a huge dinner salad. It has tomatoes lettuce carrots olives corn in it. We will add hard-boiled eggs and it will make a big dinner salad and the price was 1.88 Euro

10 instant coffee packets. .90

That is less than you pay for one cup of coffee at the bar. Not as good, but good in a pinch for emergencies.

Pumpkin seeds. 1.70 E

Three baguettes for E1.10

I like to carry these sticks of sugar for my coffee. There were 50 sticks in this box for E1.15

I’ll put a handful in my backpack and leave the rest of the apartment for the next people

We are eating lots of yogurt. Joe got this big 1Kg container of yogurt for E2.10

1 baguette E.45 

It’s good to carry a salami like this in your pack if you’re walking the Camino, just in case you get to a place and there is no food. E 1.50

I like these little packets of butter so the butter doesn’t melt in my pack they were a dozen here for E 1.45

Chips E1.00

I’m in love with arroz con Leche

4 for E1.05

Mackerel in sauce  .90

Half Dozen Eggs E1.50

Tuna in olive oil (for our salad) E1.35

Cashews E1.65

We had midday food at a Sirian restaurant. We split a huge plate with chicken, hummus, fried potatoes, salad, onion, pita bread and the total price of it was €9.50. So that was only 4.50 each

I will post a photo of their card in case you are in Zaragoza  and would like to try it. It was a really nice clean restaurant and the food was good. 

Now we are back in the apartment finishing up laundry and resting. This afternoon we are going to go see the Roman Port and Forum. 

Dinner in Manresa

 Tonight we finished off the groceries we bought for the past 5 days. We figure it’s cost us less than $10/day to eat by not eating out. Dinner tonight was ensalada mixta, pesto pasta con bacon, gazpacho y pan. Our landlord brought by a nice Easter pound cake and coffee pods for breakfast.

Camino Weather Changes Our Plans

 Current weather has made us decide to change our plans once again. 

Our plan this morning is to bus to Zaragosa tomorrow. 

We have booked an extra day there for touristing and at this point plan on walking from there to Logroño. But we are staying flexible - so time will tell.

Stay tuned  

More photos from the Church of the Cave

Joe took these photos with his iPad and they really came out great

St. Ignatius Cave

I’m sorry these photos are out of order. It’s impossible to do blogging on this phone. Anyway this is a photo with Joe showing you how huge is mosaics are. It was meant to go at the bottom but I cannot move it. Also it is not letting me enlarge some photos so if you want to see a larger photo, click on it and it should enlarge

 Yesterday Joe and I took a visit to Saint Ignatius cave.  It was opulent. We got there early and missed the crowds so that was nice.  Here are some of the photos we took

Crosses carved by Ignatius. 

Joe inside the cave

Altar

Ignacio 

Closeup of foot. Something you may not know is that when you’re painting human skin you should use greens because of the way the blood in the blue veins is changed a green by the red or pink of the lighter veins closer to the surface. I think it’s cool that they use green in his foot and I love the detail

Entrance had signs telling you to be silent. 

The Sanctuary had Christ’s statue shrouded for Good Friday to show he is dead. 

The Sunflower represents how we should face the sun (Christ) always 

Beautiful Mosaic saying basically that all good things come from above and fall on us via the rays of the sun (Christ) like water from a fountain. Hermetic. 

Adam and Eve. Below they are in the garden and then the hand of God lifts them up. 

All around the sanctuary are these huge gorgeous glass mosaics. They sparkle, which I cannot catch with my camera. There are signs telling you not to touch them because you might get cut on the glass.

Glass

The SEU from the Cave

Animals 

Can you see the beehive and bees, the owl and owl’s nest, rabbits, foxes, snake, snails, doves, grapes, lilies, ladybugs, lambs, and more?