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The Spar Shop
... but on a hot day it must be a very welcome one. Toledo town is reminiscent of the wynds and closes of Edinburgh Old Town on a warm day. Passageways come from left, right and centre, up and down. Perfectly normal-seeming roads turn-out to have other roads running under bridges below them, and the buildings seeming to hang over the pedestrian. We looked at a famous El Greco, a Moorish church (no point in ...
Don Quixote and marzipan
... cafes and shops. And lots of shops selling marzipan sweets and biscuits. Not sure why, but they are displayed in lots of shop windows. They are mostly packed, however, rather than fresh, so did not buy to try. Well, at least that was one source of kilojoules averted!
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Windmills
... yesterday to get to Toledo. We took a little detour at one point so that we could see the famous windmills from Don Quijote. The bus had a hard time climbing the hill where the windmills were! It was fun walking around the windmills once we got up there.
When we got to Toledo we had 40 minutes before we had to get together to go out for our afternoon session. I dropped my bags in my room and then headed out to walk around ...
Pan y Agua
... of whether children should be fully immersed or not. Personally I'm all for starting foreign languages at a young age. Children learn more quickly than adults (can't teach an old dog new tricks) and being bilingual can only help you later in life. Hence why I'm in Spain. It's a pretty interesting topic, so if you have opinions I'd love to hear 'em.
The beginning of this week was incredibly hot again. It smells terrible outside too. Can you tell me ...
Medieval Wonderland
... The Good: Toledo! It was beautiful and the narrow streets and old buildings you could easily feel like you would teleported back in time. Long walk up the hill, but first museum had some huge and beautiful tapestries! Then walked along the streets exploring here and there and happened upon a medieval torture museum...scary stuff but interesting. Ended the tour at the Cathedral of Toledo, WOW! More paintings I had only seen on the net, no photos allowed..so um..discretly snapped ...
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