Domenico Toledo
C/ Cerro del Emperador s/n (Carretera de Cobisa), (formerly Best Western) Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, 45002, Spain and Canary Islands
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Hello, Toledo!
... d wanted to get up around that time anyway: I only had one day in Toledo and the city looked really cool and old and I wanted to explore it. He introduced himself as Eelis and explained that he was Finnish but he didn’t look Finnish because his parents were Vietnamese. His English was excellent and he was also fluent in Spanish because he’d spent the past year studying in Valencia. He’d just finished and rather than go home right away and work for the summer, ...
Monday - Day One in Toledo
We jumped into a full day of activities with the group. We toured the university campus which is in an old convent and is a wonderful building. Most of the students are in dorms, but a few are with us in the hotel. We thought we might try sharing one room, but it's just not large enough. There are 2 twin beds per room, plus there is very little space for bags or moving around. So we decided on two rooms, which is ...
Toledo (not Ohio)
Last Saturday, I took a day trip to Toledo which is just an hour bus ride south of Madrid. I went with a large group that I had met two days earlier. That Thursday went went to a place that had a bunch of board games. It was a fun diversion to play Jenga as something different. That Friday night I then went out to get some Ethiopean food. This too was a nice change of pace as it was a bit different food with a bit of a different atmosphere. Saturday morning, there ...
Touring Toledo
... by the Christians. Again it took a while, and lots of going round in circles!! This building is quite small but it's stood the test of time, being over 1000 years old. Built towards the end of the 10th century this small mosque was converted to a church with the addition of the semi-circular nave. Ancient wall paintings are still visible inside... both Christian iconography and Arabic script.
I had to start making my way back towards ...



