On Sunday, I took my first day trip from Madrid. Adventure to Toledo for the day! Despite the rough start of missing my first train because the bus never showed up, everything ended very well. The entire city reached all of my expectations. Even the entrance was incredible:
There were various times throughout the day when I would just stop walking and realize: this building next to me is almost 800 years old! No wonder they call this place the old city.
We traveled around the winding streets, to the Museo de Santa Cruz, to churches and buildings and ice cream shops. The most unbelievable sight, however, was the Gothic cathedral at the heart of the old city.
Taking pictures inside an 800-year-old church always proves to be a bust. However, I managed to take a sub-par shot of this beautiful monstrance.
Whenever I see a cathedral, now, I think of Pillars of the Earth. (Read/watch it, people. Your life will be changed.)
At the sight of a colossal old building like this, I wonder how on earth it was made without modern technology. How do a few rocks carried on something like this...
...turn into this?
Amazing. Still, despite the great beauty literally everywhere, the architectural genius of Toledo can still be tainted by the familiar Golden Arches:
It's just too bad that girl in the yellow sweater is in the way...
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