We left Madrid this morning. It wasn't easy. They didn't have the rental car we had ordered. It is very tiny and barely holds us and our luggage. My suitcase had to go in the backseat. The rental car company did give us a free Garman -voice to give us directions. Trying to follow the "voice" out of town didn't work because there was a whole lot of new construction. Mike had much more faith in the voice than did Judy and I.We did make it to Toledo before 11 am. Not a very long drive at all. Toledo is beautiful and has tiny cobbled streets and many, many hills. Unfortunately the El Greco House/Museum is closed for reconstruction. Here is Mike & Judy at a square in the town center.
The Cathedral is the main thing to see (on left). It is huge and full of jewels, gold, and other fancy stuff (along with quite of lot of dead people - cardinals I guess).It was somewhat hard to locate the Cathedral as there are so many hills and narrow alleyways you can't see any distance so we probably walked about four times as far as we needed to.
We also went to the the old Sephardic Synagogue. It is right by our hotel. Toledo had a large Jewish population and they were very well accepted and held prominent places in Toledo's community. But then in 1492 they were kicked out thanks to the Inquisition. The Museum was mostly interesting for the Synagogue (on left). The rest was pretty much just explanations of various Jewish traditions (not really specific to the Sephardic Jews or to Toledo).
We are now resting before heading out to dinner. The hotel is very nice. My room especially. For some reason they gave me an upgraded room at no charge. Doggone it to bad we are only staying one night.
Here is Mike and Judy with Toledo in the background.
The Cathedral from a distance. It is the largest and grandest in all of Spain - so they say.
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