Holy Toledo

Our travels today take us south to Toledo, a quick 45 minute train ride from Madrid (bonus points to my scheduler for the station being just a few blocks from our hotel).

Toledo has a pretty long history a religious center and any top ten lists of sights to see is likely made up most of churches, mosques, and synagogues, but the cathedral is the one most tourists come to see. We’ve seen a lot of these over the years, but I’m still amazed by the effort that would have gone into building them, particulry given the tools they had to work with at the time. Equally as impressive is the ability to put together the funding for construction, the ornate furnishings, amazing art collection, and the acres of gold leaf. Never a shortage of rich people with a guilty conscious looking to buy a ticket to heaven I suppose.

We spend the next few hours wandering aimlessly through the old town, stopping in a few shops here and there, and sitting down for a quiet lunch well off the beaten path. For some reason, it is also free museum day today (they are just small ones here so they don’t count against my new “one museum per day” rule). I don’t is that is true all over the country, but here, every time we try to hand over our money, they just push it back across the counter and hand us a ticket. Perhaps they recognize us as the influencers we are #gypsylife #adventuregirl #gotouttadodge

There is also an old castle here (now a military museum) that probably is worth a visit if we had more time, but our train back to Madrid beckons.