Abaceria Hotel Toledo

... a taxi driver was nice enough to take me on the 2 second drive back to the beautiful Toledo train station. (I guess that's why no other taxi driver wanted to take me...). I made it back on the train and back to Madrid in time for lunch...with plenty of time to study. Let me let you guess...do you think I did a lot of that? If you guessed no, you guessed right...

We finally made our much anticipated arrival in Spain. We landed at the Madrid Barajas International Airport around 7:00 AM, and from there we took a private coach to the peaceful, walled city of Toledo where the famous artist, El Greco, once lived. With this being my first trip to Europe, everything was so surreal--so overwhelmingly different from anything I'd ever experienced. The small walled city of Toledo had more roundabouts than I'd ...

... from those that were in the main plaza, but still unfortunately paid 20 Euros for mystery meat and a salad. Although I do have to say, the homemade caramel flan for dessert (came with the meal) was excellent! If I could only survive on wine and desserts.... OK, I have another blog to post with more pictures from my trip to Avila and Segovia that I will get done later today. Have a great day! -Diane

... my wife? Wow. The main course is a roast baby lamb for me, and a partridge casserole for Diana, ordered half because we had no idea what a partridge was, and wanted to find out. Partridge turns out to be some sort of a small bird, very gamy. My lamb, with golden, crispy skin, is superb. I have no idea how much weight I will have gained by the time we return from Europe, but I see a lot of gym in my future. The only hope I have is all the ...

... an, dass ich Erasmus-Student (so heisst das Austauschprogramm) bin, was eigentlich nur von Vorteil ist und einige Profs mehr Rücksicht nehmen und ich vielleicht öft**s f**nbleiben darf, denn eigentlich gilt Anwesenheitspflicht (ist ja wie in d** Schule). Ich glaube, ich **rege ziemlich Mitleid, wenn ich mit grossen Augen und offenem Mund da sitze, während alle fleissig am Schreiben sind. Eine Professorin sitzt sogar ab und zu neben mich hin und fragt, ob ich ...

... had the urge to strap one to my back and brought it home.(If only they had the Darth Vader's light sabre.....) actually the swordmakers were really up-to-date, they even had the sword that was bore by ...

... the top, the only way to go is down. So, instead of taking the normal-people way down, we crawl over this wall (about the width of a funbox, 8 feet in the air) and carefully lower ourselves down in to this huge field/mountain/area that's blocked off for a reason. Well, a little off roading never hurt anybody! So we decided to hike down this hill and try to hop the wall that surrounds Toledo. What? They built this wall for a reason!!!! So people can't get over it! Anyway, we ...

... Quixote. The high point of the performance occurred when the Don's carriage was accidentally knocked off its chocks and rolled down the hill, crushing several tourists. Five hours of walking with only a couple of short breaks left us with nothing further to see so we agreed that it would be a good idea to cut short our stay in Toledo by a day and arrive in Montserrat a day early. In the evening we waited in vain for the hotel restaurant to open then ...

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... the Santa Tome brand, recognisable by the metre high replica of the Toledo Cathedral made entirely of mazapan in the front of their store. The nuns of the Convent Santa Ursula was also rumoured to make a decent mazapan. However it was less likely they would be as chatty as my shopkeeper. They were from an religious order that prefers their own company so to place an order you must talk through a slot in a window, place your money on a turnstile and wait for your ...