Toledo
Travel Blogs from Toledo, Spain and Canary Islands
Holy Hot Toledo!
... - do it - it is that nice. Because I have the luxury of time and am just starting to burn off the last of my days in Spain, and because I am too tired and lazy to fight the crowds and try and see Granada and Barcelona in a week, I am taking the Slow ...
Avila, Segovia and Toledo
... found our way back onto the ring road but in a breathtaking act of stupidity I somehow directed Margaret back into maze of old Toledo and we had to endure the nightmare all over again. By an amazing piece of good luck one of the tourist-infested streets ...
About time to visit Toledo.
... (who stays longer than a weekend) list of "must go there" places. It took me more than a year in the capital before I managed to go and see Toledo for myself, and I must say I really liked the city. A place to go back to when friends are visiting I ...
Don Quixote Country
... in Madrid any longer than it took us to go through the Prado. It just seemed too big and confusing and we're simply Barcelona people I guess. So off to Toledo. Here we found the best campground - El Greco. We broke camp late on the morning of the 19th as ...
Tir na nOg
... drove a right hand wheel before this week...today, i did...right past the Hertz official. Then, we got out and swapped over!! Dark when we arrived in Toledo (Seat of Presidency for UNESCO cities - 71 km south of Madrid), not much to see at night time. ...
Toledo
Toledo is a very pretty small medieval city on a hill, surrounded by vast dry landscapes, with the added bonus of being able to stay in one of the historic buildings that look out over the river into town, or the other way round. The winding streets in ...
More Moorsville
... the gardens were overgrown, but the layout was so similar to Granada or Sevilla or or or any Moorish gardens in Spain. We decided to finish off Toledo by walking the rest of the walls, and as I said before about not being in Spain, these walls just made ...
Toledo, Avila & Segovia, Spain
... are within an hour's drive (Toledo to the southwest and Avila and Segovia to the northwest.) Toledo was once the capital of Spain. The buildings and winding streets contained within the old city walls hold hundreds of years of history. During ...
Jews and Muslims and Christians, Oh My!
Toledo is a town that almost became the capital of Spain and suffered more than its fair share during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). About 70 km south of Madrid, it's a popular tourist spot because of its interesting history. Toledo was first settled ...
Holy Toledo!
... hour away from Madrid via the new express train. This was another city our cousin Jen told us we had to visit and we had a great time there. Toledo is a very old city whose history I won't delve into because it is far too long (I am sure Wikipedia has ...
Day Trip to Toledo
... in a little sanctuary/habitat thing for a while and played our mini Chess game (Andre won). We finally got on the next train and headed for Toledo! When we got there we had the option of taking the "brutal" 30-minute hike up to the main part of the town ...
Oooooh Toledo, Don't Let Her Go
... are extremely narrow, it doesn't mean that cars are prohibited from driving them. 5. The paper wrapper in which Toledo's famous mazapan (marzipan) comes, doesn't taste as good as the actual ...
Holy Toledo Batman
... again and I can distinctly feel another mutiny coming on, anyway as usual she did a cracking job between the major cities and we got to Toledo in pretty good time. We were absolutely knackered by the time we got there and decided to lash out on a nice ...
Don Quijote
... , zum Glück studier ich VWL ;-)), sondern freu mich auf die kommende Zeit, obwohl's mir schon ein bisschen schwer fallen wird Toledo zu verlassen, und wieder in ein "normales" (Studenten-)Leben zurück zu kehren. Es ist ja noch nicht aller Tage Abend ...
more museums and alot of history
... . the prado was very impressive, and i was lucky to be around during a temporary picasso exhibition which great. toledo is oozing with history, and it was very exciting stepping through the city gates and being insided the old town walls! lots more ...
Ein letztes HOLA aus Toledo
... hat auch einiges zu bieten. Vor allem die riesige Medina (Altstadt) mit ihren über 1000 Gässchen ist sehenswert. Ich dachte Toledo sei bereits ein Labyrinth, doch Fés übertrifft dies noch bei weitem und wenn man nicht mit einem Guide unterwegs ist, ...
Arrived in my new home
... ist es viel besser beschrieben, als ich es kann. Ich erzähle euch dann lieber einmal vom Nachtleben in Toledo.:-) Jedenfalls fing meine Zimmersuche dann am Dienstag erst richtig an Ich riss von allen Anschlagbrettern und Strassenlaternen Zettelchen mit ...
Holy Toledo! - Madrid/Toledo - Day 4
... were closed. The city is also packed with tourist, which can also take away from the experience. Toledo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a beautiful and ancient city with a very interesting history (http://www.toledo.world-guides.com/). I stopped ...
de Madrid a Toledo
... en un solo dia, asi que nos preparamos con pan, jamon serrano y queso, para no tener que gastar muhco dinero. Llegando a TOledo decidimos caminar en lugar de tomar el autobus como la mayoria de los uqe llegaron a la estacion del tren, y comenzamos ...
Spain, Spain, Spain
... for one, found the payphone he sent me to, called a taxi and told him where we were. Aye carumba, but we finally made it back to Toledo where there were busses and cars and places to eat. And on our way to eat Dave got shat on by a bird. I felt bad, but I ...
day 3
... pretty neat. we thought getting there was tough but once we got to the city the roads were so windy that we lost our sense of direction and when we planned to leave we got lost for 2hrs. oh and let me tell you all the roads are windy and hilly so em and ...
When Shmuel ha-Levi was a Hasid: Day 2 in Toledo
... a museum to Spanish Jewish history into an active bet midrash. We also brought up the history of anti-semitism in Spain and how, right there in Toledo, was born the idea of limpieza de sangre, purity of blood laws that excluded "new Christians" (recent ...
Toledo day excursion
Recently took a small day excursion with some friends to Toledo, what used to be Spain's capital up until the 1500's or so. It's about an hour away by bus, south of Madrid and though we could've gone through the school, we were more fitted to go wander ...
Toledo
... city of three cultures. up until 1492 when the catholic king and queen came to power in spain, christians, muslims and jews all lived together in toledo. so today you can still see the islamic influences everywhere - arched doorways and intricate tiling ...
Besuchszeit
Buenas. Die Zeit hier vergeht wie im Flug und ich komme einfach nicht dazu meinen Blog up to date zu halten, aber eigentlich ist das ja ein gutes Zeichen. Tut mir einfach Leid für die, die ein bisschen öfter von mir hören wollen. Die letzten ...
Con Pitu... en Castilla de la Mancha
... .. QUÉ HORROR! Y muchas más que ahora nos olvidamos pero que vamos a ir recordando y escribiendo. Paseamos hasta la tarde por Toledo, pasamos por los lugares históricos más importantes y más que nada hablamos y hablamos y hablamos. A la tarde, ya sin ...
Despues las clases
... habe. Letzte Woche wollte ich zwar nach Ciudad Real, doch dann fuhr kein Bus. Dafür war ein Autorennen in Toledo. Es waren gewöhnliche Strassenautos, die zu Rennwagen umgebaut wurden. War noch interessant und super laut. Auf dem Nachhauseweg konnte ich ...
Where´s the cool?
... in the middle of the most famous, most notorious fiesta in all of the world. My friends, I attended the one and only...Toledo Police Fiesta. Whooooooooo! Basically, it was just a bunch of cops displaying all their different units, their ...
