While in Madrid Oziel and I made a day trip to Toledo with Pablo. Long ago Toledo was the capital of the Spanish empire. Today is a quiet, but touristic, historic town.
Perched on the top of a hill, the narrow streets wind up and down throughout the town. The architecture primarily European, but as many of the builders were from the North of Africa there are many Arabic influences.
Getting there proved more troublesome than we anticipated. A high speed train goes between Madrid and Toledo every hour for less than 10 EUR. We turned up at 8:30 am, planing to buy a ticket for the next train. However, RENFE has troubles with their computer systems, meaning we needed to buy tickets from the ticket counter. After a 45 minute wait, we were told that the earliest train for which we could buy tickets was 12:20. Luckily coming back was no problem. For future reference – tickets can be much faster at least one day in advance, and we understand that you can change the time of the return ticket easily.
