Holy Toledo!

Toledo is only a short and very easy 30 minute train ride away from Madrid. The train station is a 10 minute walk from our apartment so the whole thing was really easy. We went there yesterday with our friends, John and Kathy and their kids. Toledo is a charming old Spanish town with a long history and Christian, Jewish, and Islamic influences. The architecture was a distinct mixture of moorish and Spanish designs. The grand cathedral was amazing! Built in the Middle Ages, it took 200 years to complete. So maybe there is hope for our high speed railway in California? Anyways, the cathedral was impressive and contained columns pillaged from the former mosque that stood there. The crypt held the bones of Saint Ursula. Never heard her? She was a badass. She was a princess that lived around the year 400 AD. One day, she met Atilda the Hun and he was so taken with her beauty that he wanted her to renounce her religion and marry him. But when she refused him, he had her and her 80 or so maidens killed. I guess he couldn’t handle rejection. Now her bones are interred and on display in the Toledo cathedral! Crazy!