9:17 PM - Madrid
I am exhausted. A little early end of the day today - I was back at the hotel by 7 PM, I think. But good exhausted.
Today, I am thankful for:
1. an early start - left the hotel at 7 am and didn't sleep well last night, but I did find the bus to Segovia easily. And since I was early, I had time to eat breakfast at the station (not Atocha, different station for Segovia bus).
2. Aqueduct - beautiful. Amazing how it survived and is still well maintained.
3. San Martin church (only from the outside) and Plaza San Martin
4. Plaza Mayor - nice little square with a small grandstand.
5. Catedral de Segovia - beautiful. Spain's last major Gothic building. For me, not as beautiful inside as the cathedral in Toledo, but facade is equally impressive albeit different.
6. Limon Y Menta - had a light early lunch here. I was going to try El Sitio but really wanted to try not to eat meat today (Lent Friday). I actually ended up eating here twice - again, just before going back to the bus station, to try some ponche segoviano and some crocantinos (almond). The ponche was really yummy - the filling kinda reminded me of brazo de mercedes.
7. Alcazar de Segovia - I blame google for making me take the loooong way. What was supposed to be a 15-min walk turned out to be an exhausting 40 min with the sun beating down my back and front, and part of it was not a short climb up. I must have taken a 360° view of the castle before actually arriving there. Was it worth the long hike? Definitely. But I did take the shorter route back. 😁
The rooms were very nice. The stairs going up the tower were exhausting but the 360° view of the town from above was really beautiful - also a clear view of the Cathedral from the tower.
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| found this pretty little park on the walk back from the Alcazar |
8. getting lost again (it's just one of those days) going back to the bus station. This time partly my fault because I didn't save the address, but also partly google's for not returning the right address for my search. 😀
9. The man at the Avanza counter for letting me change my ticket to an earlier time - yes, earlier, even after getting lost twice, I still made it to the bus station earlier than planned so take that... I don't know who, but just take that! ha!
10. The bus back to Madrid - by this time, I was about ready to just crash and slept the whole time (and hopefully, not too noisily) on the bus.
11. Mercado de San Anton (back in Madrid) - this looked better than Mercado de San Miguel, in my opinion, and less crowded too. I found some paella - you normally can't order just for one in regular restaurants so score! - so I had that for dinner.
With the trifecta (Aqueduct, Cathedral, and Alcazar), Segovia, I think, is one of the prettiest towns I have ever seen, and one of my favorites.
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