A day in Sergovia

Last night there was a huge crowd in Puerta del Sol, most of them wearing red and white. Apparently a soccer team had won something and they were welcoming them home. The Spanish are very, very passionate about their soccer.

Today we went to Segovia, on a slow train, this time it only reached 250 kph! Segovia is most famous for its Roman aqueduct. It is more than 2000 years old and was built without mortar or cement. It was still in use early in the 19th Century and stands more than 28 metres high and 16,220 metres in lentht.

The cathedral is a massive Gothic structure dating from 1525 when it was built to replace the old cathedral which was destroyed in 1520. I was particularly taken by the flying buttresses.

While I was waiting for a certain person to finish photographing the cathedral I heard an odd noise overhead. I looked up and saw two storks in a nest high up in a tree.

 The Alcazar which was built in the 11th Century on the site of a Roman fortress is like a castle in a fairy tale with turrets, towers, ramparts and the remains of a moat on the side that is not sheer cliff. One of the rooms had a glass fronted bookcase containing some old books which were like a magnet to me!

This is the site that greeted us when we turned up for our trip home, snow in the background and our lovely comfortable high speed train waiting to whisk us back to Madrid in less than 30 minutes.

And yes we did have a final goats cheese, tomato and spinach salad for dinner and even suggested it to the diners next to us who turned out to be a couple from Sydney on their first night in Madrid. They have just been to Turkey and were pleased to pass on some sights not to miss, so we were able to reciprocate with must see sights in Southern Spain.