Eurico Toledo

The day began with grey clouds and the
snow from yesterday had all melted from the roof tops. We went down
for breakfast at about 9.00 (the time breakfast in this hotel starts)
and were served coffee and a big bread roll that was toasted by the
coughing and hacking clerk.
Finished our ...

Toledo is the most historically important city of Castilla La Mancha.

It's fortified and on a hill with a view that reaches almost to Madrid. Turistically it is centred on Don Quijote de la Mancha (and Sancho Pansa) and nighthood (swards and nigfes everywhere)... El Greco (mideval paintor from Greece who settled in Toledo) lived here, bu...

We had the last day of the tour of Spain on the road today. We covered a lot of territory as we headed north to Madrid, both our starting and finishing point. We had all begun to have very mixed feelings about the end. We had seen so much of the rich culture of the area, had made good friends among our group and shared many good times over the 1...

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know how everything is going. Last weekend me and 7 other students rented a couple cars and took a road trip! ROAD TRIP! haha, i know. We headed for Toledo, about a four hour drive north just south of Madrid. lets just say that taking a drive through spain is beautiful! i couldn´t believe it! that and it´s th...

So I woke up today with my heels still very raw and pained. As you could tell by my lovely picture in the previous entry, they were very red too. Anyways, in general the day started off fine. Woke up at 7:30am, packed up my stuff and went down for breakfast. By 9am we were all off to Toledo ("Toe-lay-doe"). But we had some sites to see first. Fi...

I had a very ****** sleep. Despite the lower-than-normal temperatures for Toledo, it was still hot in the room and I tossed and turned all night long. Of course we still both managed to sleep in until 9:30 AM! Apparently Mary dreamed of having sushi with her E&Y co-workers and then playing poker with Khanh and Jessica. Poor girl - she can't ...

Hola! Today we got up & headed out to find some breakfast. We ended up going to a great place called Museo del Jamon (Ham museum) & had a great breakfast. The restaurant had pig legs hanging up all around the walls & Abby was really bothered by it. Also my Mom is trying to get used to the very small cups of coffee that they give you in Spain eve...

It is now 17 days since my purse was stolen, and I am still trying to sort things out! I thought it would be so much simpler than this. My mom managed to con the bank in to giving her a new bank card for me, which she promptly courriered to Spain. And it has been here ever since...about 10 days ago! Ridiculous problems with customs tormenting me...

Ok, here is how my weekend went... FANTASTIC!!! Ok, so on Friday I got up and got on the bus that the whole group took to Madrid. We toured one of the art museums.. Reina Sofia. It is the museum of modern art. It was pretty cool. I had been there before so I had a general idea of what I wanted to see. So after the art museum we were given a ˝ ho...

DAY 19 THU For once getting out of the city was a breeze. Some way out of town we stopped at a café which we thought must be good as it had attracted a large number of trucks. The old wisdom of the road proved correct. For a mere three euros we were able to feast on a couple of small dishes of food washed down by reasonably nice coffee. Avila wa...