TripTracker.net - Western Europe 2010, A day in medieval Toledo

Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South Africa 2010!D-Day: A beginning Eastfield to Istandbul: Grumpyness at 30000ft Turkish shuttle Istanbul by day Istanbul by night Long walk to freedom Lisbon walking tour Discovering Lisbon Exploring Sintra Fado’s night out The rain in Spain falls mainly on my brain A day in medieval Toledo Madrid on a Sunday Flamenco por una buena causa To Barcelona Barcelona! Barcelona!Gaudi in the morning Olympic in the afternoon Chilling in Barcelona La Rambla To Nice A Nice night Relax, take it Eze Monaco in an afternoon Chilling in Nice To Venice Our first day in Venice The attempt at Venice night photos The second day in Venice The last night in Venice The Farewell Frenzy in Firenze Exploring Florence Conquering the Dome Conquering the Torra Lucca, I am your father Picnic in Pisa A day in Pisa When in Rome…Ancient scorching Rome Welcome to Naples (and its crazy traffic)A day in Capri Ancient scorching Pompeii To Santa Fortunata Chilling in Sorrento Back to Rome Aida and the catacombs The Vatican in a flash The End

jnroux

Western Europe 2010

A day in medieval Toledo

Rating:

Jun 26 2010, 11:41 AM

16 photos

Embed trip View in Google Earth Rss news about this trip GPX Track

Traveler

jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

Journal

Location

Toledo, Spain

Click to view large map

After a late night of running through the rain we over-slept a bit and had to hurry to get Janno at the Metro at 8:30. After packing everything in haste and 10 minutes of trying to talk to the Huis Luis staff member, he said that we can leave our stuff in the same rooms for the whole day! These guys are really a bit weird and we dubbed them the “Lae Luise.” We eventually linked-up with Janno at 9:00 and walked towards Plaza Manor, the main tourism information center in Madrid. They only opened at 9:30 and after a short wait we got the information we needed to go to Toledo. We travelled to Toledo by Renfe speed train in 30 minutes. In Toledo we had Riana’s split personally, Adriana, as a tour guide! She led us through the streets of medieval Toledo and took us to the main attractions of the city: (1) Plaza Zocodover, (2) the Catedral, (3) Iglesia de Sto Tome, (4) Iglesia de Eos Jesuitas San Ildefonso and (5) Museo de Santa Cruz (where we went in for free). I’ve got no idea what these Spanish words mean (only Adriana knows), but it is basically a lot of very old impressive looking buildings. Other interesting things we saw included: (1) a very nice collection of El Greco painting which included the 12 disciples and Jesus, (2) a pregnant bride and (3) a sad-looking woman playing a weird-looking instrument. O-yes, after a while Janno got a bit annoyed with Adriana and his split personally took over… angry German Hanz. From Toledo we took the bus back to Madrid… a 50 minute drive for half the price of the train. From the Plaza Eliptica train station we went into the metro and travelled to Sol plaza. We walked down to the Lope de Vega theatre which we used as hiding from the rain the previous night and bought tickets for a Flamingo show for tomorrow night! Afterwards we split up with Janno, visited the supermarket and went back to Huis Luis. Here we were told that we can stay in the same rooms for the remainder of our stay in Madrid… good luis. For the remainder of tonight I took some time to get this travel log up to date… (wonder if there is someone out there reading this)

Photos

Show all photos (552)

Comments

No comments

	50. The End Jul 17 2010, 05:26 PMCape Town, South Africa4 photos Our flight in Istanbul was delay by 1 hour and 45 minutes AND our aircraft dated out of the 70s. No in-flight entertainment, warn-out chairs and very shaky (physically shaking) overhead compartments. Regardless of these things, we were still going home and it felt good. There was a lot of Afrikaans...

	49. The Vatican in a flash Jul 17 2010, 09:56 AMCape Town, South Africa11 photos For our last day in Rome we decided to visit the Vatican Museum, since we did not get to visit it during our previous trip to Rome (refer to Journal entry 41). Fortunately the closest Metro to the Vatican was also on our Metro line and we were “there” at about 8:55. We then stood in the longest...

	48. Aida and the catacombs Jul 16 2010, 02:46 PMRome, Italy9 photos Our first mission for the day (besides the getting to Rome part) was to see the catacombs and the second to watch Aida at the Baths of Caracalla. On our way to the bus station we saw our first accident in Italy (really a surprising first considering the way they drive). I heard a hard sound and...

Username:
Password:
Remember me