Panoramic scene from the rooftop terrace of our hotel.
After finding the Madrid Metro station at the airport, going into central Madrid to Atocha train station, then taking the train to Toledo we were pretty beat. In our heads and our bodies it feels like 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, yet we're tromping around trying to buy train tickets, figure out which way is which, etc. Lisa was great in being able to ask random people (lady running the candy store, haha) how to get to the part of the train station that our train to Toledo left from, etc.
The train to Toledo was a very smooth and fast 30 minutes or so, and we fought off sleep the entire way. The train station at Toledo is slightly outside the main old city, and you walk out of the station, catch nearly any of the city buses and grab a ticket and a seat. Many of them go to Plaza de Zocodover, which is Toledo's main square. From there, us two zombies marched towards the cathedral, because from there I figured we could find our hotel (Hotel Santa Isabel, I would wholeheartedly stay there again). After asking a few people we finally made it to the cathedral and then we made it to the hotel, checked in, and immediately crashed! We slept for about 4 hours, until getting up that evening to go eat, get a sense of our surroundings, etc. The panoramic picture above was taking from the roof our our hotel. We went to the supermarket located behind the cathedral and got a few things and had an impromptu picnic up there, just trying to believe that that we finally were in Spain.
Walking towards the cathedral on our way to the market that evening. Cars do travel down these tiny streets, but the cars are pretty tiny themselves.
Also, it was Lisa's 30th birthday! So we celebrated a bit and decided that being in Spain on your 30th birthday was a pretty good memory. (I'll admit that when I picked the date to fly to Spain I didn't realize that we'd be getting there on her birthday, even though I know when her birthday is...just happened to overlook it was all. She said she didn't mind and figured it would make it special.)
The clouds darkened and rain began to fall, so we retreated inside. We finished the night by winding down, checking out a little Spanish TV, then slept like babies.
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