Meine Freunde Anna, Violetta, Hayato und ich sind heute mit so einer für Studenten organisierten Reisegruppe nach Toledo gefahren. Das befindet sich südwestlich von Madrid und wir haben ca. 1 Stunde mit dem Bus da hin gebraucht.
Zuerst haben wir eine Stadtführung bekommen. Wir sind also mit unserem Tourguide zwei Stunden lang durch Toledo gelaufen und sie hat uns alles Mögliche erklärt - zum Beispiel, dass Toledo bis 1561 die Hauptstadt von Spanien war und dass es sehr besonders ist, dass dort Christen, Muslime und Juden gemeinsam lebten. Es sind auch noch alte Kirchen, Moscheen und Synagogen erhalten. Ich fand's echt interessant und vor allem war's ganz cool, dass unser Tourguide immer zwischen Englisch und Spanisch geswiched hat; so konnte ich mal sehen, was ich wirklich so verstehe - meine Quote war gar nicht so schlecht glaube ich😃.
In Toledo gibt es auch die zweitgrößte Kathedrale Spaniens und gerade als wir dort waren, war da irgend so eine Prozession wo sie die Figur der Maria irgendwo hintragen. Das ist anscheinend nur einmal im Jahr und soll etwas ganz Besonderes sein. Ich fand's zwar jetzt nicht sehr beeindruckend, aber ok. Vielleicht muss man dazu mehr wissen. Da waren halt ein paar Männer, die diese Marienstatue getragen haben und dahinter eine Marsch-Kapelle. Aber sonst nichts.
Wir sind dann weiter zum Plaza Zocodover. Von da aus wurden wir dann "frei" gelassen und hatten ein bisschen Zeit, um die Stadt selber zu erkunden. Das find ich immer besser als wenn man so ner Touri-Gruppe hinterherdackeln muss, und nie Zeit hat etwas gescheit anzuschauen. Wir haben uns dann aber erstmal auf die Suche nach was zu Essen gemacht und haben dann auch ein Lokal gefunden, bei dem jeder auf der Karte etwas gefunden hat, was ihm schmeckt. Um genauer zu sein, auf der Karte für die Terrasse. Wir konnten nämlich nicht draußen essen, weil dort alle Tische schon besetzt waren. Also haben wir uns rein gesetzt und haben dann festgestellt, dass die Karte für drinnen eine ganz andere ist.
Im Endeffekt haben wir aber doch alle was gefunden. Wir hatten nicht so viel Hunger, deswegen haben wir uns alle nur eine Kleinigkeit bestellt (ich z.B. hatte Kalamari-Ringe). Ha! Dachten wir zumindest! Als der Kellner das Essen gebracht hat, waren das einfach riesen Portionen, alle mit zusätzlich Pommes und Salat. Die Qualität von dem Essen war jetzt auch nicht sehr prickelnd - die Pommes haben regelrecht vor Fett getrieft. Aber es war echt nicht teuer, also war das ok 😅.
Danach sind wir wieder zum Hauptplatz zurück, denn von da aus sind wir mit unserer Gruppe zum "Flying Toledo" gegangen. Das ist so eine Art Seilbahn, wo man in einem Gurt festgeschnallt wird und dann fliegt man quasi an einem Seil über eine Schlucht. Sowas wie es in den ganzen Kletterparks immer am Schluss gibt. Das hat mega Spaß gemacht, auch wenn ich bei sowas immer Bammel hab, dass die Seile reißen oder so (😅😅😅). Aber ist natürlich alles gut gegangen und von dort aus hatte man nochmal eine richtig gute Aussicht (Bilder davon kommen noch in den nächsten Tagen).
Danach sind Anna, Hayato, Ich und Naoemi, die wir bei der Tour kennen gelernt haben, noch in die Synagoge gegangen. Das war super interessant, weil Naoemi Jüdin ist und uns richtig viel erklären konnte was wir so vielleicht nicht erfahren hätten.
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| Hayato, Naoemi, Anna und ich |
Danach mussten wir zu Treffpunkt eilen, weil wir - ganz den spanischen Gewohnheiten verfallen - schon zu spät waren. Der Bus ist aber nicht ohne uns los gefahren 😊. Auf dem Rückweg haben wir dann noch bei einem Aussichtspunkt gehalten.
Der Tag war echt schön, auch wenn mir vom viele Rumlaufen jetzt echt die Füße weh tun. Ich bin auch stolz auf meine Kamera, denn der Akku hat gehalten.
Ich geh jetzt dann schlafen.
Morgen beginnen die Spanisch Kurse 👀.
Gute Nacht 😘
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Toledo Calling!
Today I went to Toledo with my friends Anna, Violetta and Hayato. We went there by bus with an organisation. Toledo is located south-western of Madrid and it took us about one hour to get there.
At first we were having a guided tour. We walked through Toledo for about two hours and our tourguide explained lots of things to us, for example, that Toledo was the capital of Spain until 1561 and that it is very special that there were muslims, jews and christians living together. They still have remaining churches, mosques and synagogues. It was quite interesting and I really liked that our guide was talking in both english and spanish so I was able to see how much I really understood - and I wasn't doing bad at all 😃.
In Toledo there is the second biggest cathedral of entire Spain and as we went there a procession was going on where they carried around a statue of the holy mary. Apparently this takes place only once a year and it is supposed to be something very special but I didn't find it very impressive. There were just some men carrying the statue and a marching band behind them. Nothing else.
Then we proceeded to Plaza Zocodover from where we were set "free" and were able to exlore the city by ourselves. I enjoy exploring by myself more because there is no need to follow some tourist group and I can take as much time as I want. But first thing we did was getting lunch. We found a restaurant which seemed to have something for everyone on their menu. We wanted to sit outside, but since every table was already taken, we were led inside. But apparently the menu for the inside was different than the one we saw outside. In the end everyone found something but we weren't very hungry anyway which was why we ordered only small dishes (I ordered fried clamari), or, at least we thought they were small. When the food arrived at our table, the portions were huge because every food was accompanied with fries and salad. It was huge. The quality of the food was not really good, the fries were soaked in oil but the dishes were really cheap so it was ok 😅.
After having our Lunch we went back to the main place where we met our travel group. We went to a place called "Flying Toledo". There is a cable tightened over the river and you can fly over the river in a belt which they attached to the cable. I am usually a bit sceptical towards these things because I am afraid of the cables tearing or something like that (😅😅😅). But of course everything went well one had a really nice view from there, too (pictures of that will be uploaded in a couple of days). Afterwards, Anna, Hayato, me and Naoemi, who we just met at the tour, went to the synagogue. It was quite interesting because Naoemi is jewish and she was able to explain a lot of things to us. In the end, we had to rush to the meeting point for the departure really fast because we were - typically spanish - already late. But the bus waited for us 😊. On the way back we were stopping at one last viewing point.
It was a really nice day although my feet are hurting now from all the walking around. This is why I am going to sleep now.
Spanish classes start tomorrow 👀.
Today I went to Toledo with my friends Anna, Violetta and Hayato. We went there by bus with an organisation. Toledo is located south-western of Madrid and it took us about one hour to get there.
At first we were having a guided tour. We walked through Toledo for about two hours and our tourguide explained lots of things to us, for example, that Toledo was the capital of Spain until 1561 and that it is very special that there were muslims, jews and christians living together. They still have remaining churches, mosques and synagogues. It was quite interesting and I really liked that our guide was talking in both english and spanish so I was able to see how much I really understood - and I wasn't doing bad at all 😃.
In Toledo there is the second biggest cathedral of entire Spain and as we went there a procession was going on where they carried around a statue of the holy mary. Apparently this takes place only once a year and it is supposed to be something very special but I didn't find it very impressive. There were just some men carrying the statue and a marching band behind them. Nothing else.
Then we proceeded to Plaza Zocodover from where we were set "free" and were able to exlore the city by ourselves. I enjoy exploring by myself more because there is no need to follow some tourist group and I can take as much time as I want. But first thing we did was getting lunch. We found a restaurant which seemed to have something for everyone on their menu. We wanted to sit outside, but since every table was already taken, we were led inside. But apparently the menu for the inside was different than the one we saw outside. In the end everyone found something but we weren't very hungry anyway which was why we ordered only small dishes (I ordered fried clamari), or, at least we thought they were small. When the food arrived at our table, the portions were huge because every food was accompanied with fries and salad. It was huge. The quality of the food was not really good, the fries were soaked in oil but the dishes were really cheap so it was ok 😅.
After having our Lunch we went back to the main place where we met our travel group. We went to a place called "Flying Toledo". There is a cable tightened over the river and you can fly over the river in a belt which they attached to the cable. I am usually a bit sceptical towards these things because I am afraid of the cables tearing or something like that (😅😅😅). But of course everything went well one had a really nice view from there, too (pictures of that will be uploaded in a couple of days). Afterwards, Anna, Hayato, me and Naoemi, who we just met at the tour, went to the synagogue. It was quite interesting because Naoemi is jewish and she was able to explain a lot of things to us. In the end, we had to rush to the meeting point for the departure really fast because we were - typically spanish - already late. But the bus waited for us 😊. On the way back we were stopping at one last viewing point.
It was a really nice day although my feet are hurting now from all the walking around. This is why I am going to sleep now.
Spanish classes start tomorrow 👀.
Good Night!
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