Day 79, Toledo, Spain

One of the many 'Puorto's" in the old city wall

Took a slow start to the day, a great breakfast. The place I'm staying at it is run by a group of friends, who bought the hotel together. There's actually a sign in reception telling the story and apologising in advance if they make a mistake as they are all quite new to this business. But every one of them has been lovely and hospitable, so I hope they do well.

Toledo town was declared a UNESCO heritage site in 1986 and not hard to see why. Around every corner is a church, monastery, mosque, the huge city wall that circles all of old Toledo.

Marzipan church

A walk into town, and I got hopelessly lost! Ended up on Plaza de Cristobal. Yep, definitely needed my crystal ball to get out of there! But that's the fun of these small towns, totally impossible to read a map, and lots to see when you do get 'lost'. One side of town to another is only 1 k, but it sure feels like further, must be because it's all up and down steps.
Toledo is well known for Marzipan (a sweet made mainly from sugar and almond meal), and lots of shops have wonderful displays in the window.

Marzipan fruits

Visited a museum of a different kind, a house set up in honour of the painter El Greco. Very interesting, I'm not usually a museum person, but this was good, house set up in the style how he would have lived in the early 1600's, with a lot of his paintings. Plus it was cool in there and 36 out, so bonus! 

Had a blissful swim early this evening in the public pool, great for the joints.

And that is a tight park!!

Travesia  San Cristobal