Remember, start at the bottom :)
Then we started our walk around the other half of the city. Umm, literally. We decided to walk down to the Tagus river and walk on a trail for a little nature. Well, it turned into a survival hike of sorts, in that I wasn't sure if I was going to survive :) . We finally made it back to that original bridge where we crossed the river, climbed up to it, and slowly trudged to the train station. It wasn't even 4pm and I was completely worn out. I think I have ascertained that 5-6 hours of walking up and down hills is my new maximum... maybe 120% of my maximum. Our tickets back to Madrid were for 9pm, how's that for an overestimation of capability? Well, live and learn. We bought new tickets and hopped on the train back. Not as long as I thought it would be, but a fantastic day.
We walked half way around the city and then went inside the medieval wall to grab a very late lunch (or as they call it in Spain, lunch).
Alcazar up close-er. It so big, you can't get real close and still get a picture.
And of course a lot of Bailley just being Bailley.
We did tons of walking, plus it's quite a hilly town. Beautiful pictures any where and any direction you turned.
Most of the monuments and sites we walked around, but we did go into Catedral Primed Santa Maria de Toledo. Just spectacular and the pictures don't do it justice.
The streets were very narrow and sprawled in lots of directions with plenty of dead ends.
Still plenty of hams too, LOL.
Yeah, easy to see why the whole walled, old section is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
A short walk and Alcazar leaps right out at you.
The small train station was so ornate.
Right off the bat, you can see all the cultural infusions and differences. Toledo has been (is?) shared between Arab, Jewish, and Christian populations.
The day started a tad early (my doing), with a train ride at 9:20am Madrid Atocha to Toledo.
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