The rest if the week in Madrid was great- tiring, but good. We went to the Prado museum and saw so many amazing paintings, including Las Meninas and other paintings I've studied at school, which I loved. On Thursday we had an adventure day, traveling by metro and bus to Toledo. My friend Emma (who actually goes to Wooster with me) and I decided to head in the direction of the tourist center first. After about an hour of walking, we realized that the beautiful panoramic scene we were looking at was the city we were supposed to be in. Luckily, all of that walking got us to the actual panoramic viewpoint, and we took a lovely ride on a double-decker tour bus back into the city. Once there, we explored the city and visited a few of the many (for lack of a better word) attractions. Toledo gives a whole new meaning to winding streets- they're more like cobblestone pathways squeezed between buildings and mostly steeply inclined. They brought us to some cool things, though- a tapestry shop, the magnificent and famous cathedral, and one of El Greco's most famous works, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, which still hangs above the tomb in a very ornate church in the middle of the city. The tour bus brought us by some of the oldest bridges and buildings, which look like (and now that I think of it, probably are) medieval castles. Seeing the differences between Toledo and Madrid made me wonder what Granada would be like. I had been understanding so much more Spanish as the week went on, but that seems hilarious now that I'm with my host family...but that's for my next post :) |
| This man's sketches of the city were FANTASTIC |
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| teeny tiny little streets |
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| La Catedral (the doorway, anyway) |
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| beautiful example of the bridges and other buildings |
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| happy to be on the tour bus |
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