So on some brighter news, I went traveling this weekend. I went to Toledo and Segovia; small city's about an hour from Madrid.

Both of them were beautiful cities. Both enriched with culture. Toledo has three different influences in the city and is theoretically split into three sections, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish.

You could easily tell when you moved from one section to the other. The style of the buildings changed, the way they were decorated, etc. Toledo is like a fortress, inner city is surrounded my castle wall with gates to move in and out.

Walking through the narrow streets on Toledo, you definitely felt like you were in the Mid Evil times. The numerous sword shops on every corner definitely help maintain that feeling. Toledo is famous for their swords, they are very beautiful and fun to look at. However some of the shops wouldn't let you look/touch the swords and I didn't like that because you couldn't see if they were actually made in Toledo or not.

Oh one thing that I forgot to mention, the historic part of Toledo is up on a hill that is about a twenty/thirty minute walk up. Matt(an aupair in Madrid) spotted what looked like the top of an escalator. Sure enough there were outside(though well hidden) public escalators that brought you up the steeper half of the hill.

Normally I never take escalators, actually I hate them, but since I've always heard stories of how people bitch about the hike to the top, it thought I would enjoy the escalator for all of them.

Quite a funny thing happened in Toledo, we were walking along when we noticed some english speaking men in front of us that looked lost and sounded confused. Sure enough they were lost(which is hard to do in Toledo cause it's small), so we decided to help them out and point them in the right direction. Right before they left one guy said: "Are you guys tourist too, just showing us up?" We replied with well we have been here for about four hours so we've gotten to know a lot of the city.

Sunday I went to Segovia by myself, I actually preferred this because I was able to see everything that I wanted and not walk at a snail's pace. Segovia is another fortress like city. Historical part in in cased in huge castle walls. However Segovia for me was so much better.

It has a huge Roman Aqueduct that was built to transport water from one part of the city to another. This thing is massive, it contains some 150 stone arches. It was a truly spectacular site, I have never seen anything like that before and probably won't again.

Another great thing about Segovia is the Alcázar. Huge castle built between 11th-15th century. Absolutely breathtaking and reminds you of fair tales. They even let you tour inside of it to see all the different room: diner room, bedrooms, weapon room, suit room, so many things to see.

I put up pictures of Segovia and Toledo, check em out if you bored