Have camera will travel

Sept 3
Supposed to be a warm day today.
Up at 6:00 – early start today. Off to Toledo this morning, and then on to Salamanca.
It took about an hour and a half to get to letter we went South of Madrid. We had to go up six sets of escalators to get to the top were the old town of Toledo is. We did a slow walk through the street narrow streets hardly anybody there because we got there at 10 o’clock so for all the tourists arrived. We walked to the Jewish quarter and down and around it into a cathedral to see a famous El Greco painting. Our guide me to stand there while he described the painting in minute detail for at least 20 minutes in a small room with no air-conditioning. We walked out before his talk was over. We are wearing something they call whispers so we have an earpiece in and he’s talking in the microphone and we can hear him, so although we were sitting outside under a tree in the shade and a nice little breeze we could still hear his talk.
Once he is he was finished his description of the painting we headed off down some narrow Windy streets toward the main square of the town. Once there we were on our own for about an hour to find lunch and to go shopping if we wanted to. We wandered into a place and found a Panini and ice cold Coke’s and we only paid eight Euros. It wasn’t much but the Coke was so cold it made up for it. We met up with the rest of the group and then trudged on down the street toward the escalators to go back down and onto the coach.
We drove for two hours through mountains and plains and Field Stead looks like Northern California to the small city of Avila. There we stop for a restroom break. I grabbed another cold Coke and a bag of chips because I needed salt I’ve been sweating so much the last three days. It was 30° again today and sunshine no clouds.
After everybody had a restroom break who we drove about 40 feet and everybody power off the coach again and we were overlooking the old part of Avilaso everybody took pictures.
Back on the coach for another hour, hour and a half to the city of Salamanca.
We are staying here for the night in a hotel that looks like it’s about 200 years old but it was only built eight years ago. They use sand stone so that all the new buildings look like all the old building so there are no skyscrapers in this area.
After the bags came up to the room we got organized and went back downstairs to the lobby to meet up for the rest of the group. Our tour guide was taking us on a forced march to the town square and then onto the cathedral if we wanted to go. Again another slow meander for about 20 minutes to the town Square which was absolutely beautiful and big.
We wandered through the Square and off down a side street toward the Cathedral. Our tour guide stopped and said OK the cathedrals that way, the Townsquare is that way and this is the road you take to get back to the hotel, you’re on your own good night.
We wander down the street for a bit and then decided we were hungry and we would rather have food and see the cathedral so we wandered back looking at all the menus. We were just about to sit down in this one restaurant when we got to Yahoo to come sit with us, so we did with about 10 of our tour mates.
We laughed and joked and talked about the day that we’ve had and about our lives in the different countries that we live in. We gave the waitress a hard time but she just laughed and shook her head at us and walked away. The food that we had was good but other said it was pretty bad so who knows we enjoyed it anyway. We wanted slowly back to the hotel so that we could lay down and get a load off our feet.
In the last two days we walked between 12 and 15 miles so we’re a little bit pooped hopefully the next couple of days we’re a little bit more sedentary.