Question: How do you totally bore 175 Thirteen Year Olds?
Answer: Put them in a room full of El Grecos.

Here we are in Toledo. It is like Venice without canals or street signs. Impossible to navigate! Yesterday we got very lost. Today we saw most of the sights. We are the only tourists besides 1500 French adolescents on school trips. Mon Dieu! Walking down the tiny street you will suddenly come to a wall of kids. It rained more this morning than it does in a whole year in San Diego, and some of these kids reminded me of myself at thirteen with the really long flared pants soaking wet to the knee and the scraggly long hair.

Last night we went to a wine bar that was in the Rick Steves book (got it in a trade for my own book and actually it has come in pretty handy here) run by a guy with a really long name which I will post in my trip report. We got there at eight and he was telling us he only serves two to four people a night. We are thinking now, he only makes a profit on two to four people a night, because while we were there we had three glasses of wine each PLUS cheese, sausage, pate, olives… he kept putting stuff out, then he poured us each a half glass of cava and the total bill was 11 Euro! And there were at least eight other people there including a guy who kind of looked like Peter Sellers who was staring at us. I will write the details of this bar later, because it was a special little place and the proprietor was very passionate (he said he goes out every day all over Spain to inspect the grapes, all for US, he was sort of dramatic). We bought a bottle of wine that we tried there for 14 Euro, that we will enjoy in Sevilla.

We are going to the Parador after I finish here to check out the view from across the river and tomorrow we head to Sevilla. I am praying for heat and sun because it has rained every day since we got here and I am a sun worshipper.

Tonight Miss Jaen is going to be on TV, to tell her side of the “Miss Espana contest was fixed” story. Later I will write about the Reality Show “Il Castillo” where Spanish TV Fortune Tellers get questioned by members of the clergy and a lady with a fucshia feather hat.

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