Sorry for the delay in posting...
It's been a hectic week and I was having a hard time getting the pictures on to my computer. I'm hoping to hear back from my professor about where to get my "big girl camera" fixed very soon.
Segovia was incredible. Sorry to those friends that were texted twenty-or-so pictures. Nerdy history major that I am Segovia was just phenomenal. We went to the Alcazar, which is a castle built on top of Roman and possibly Muslim forts. It also happens to be the castle that Isabella II lived in...as in Ferdinand and Isabella...as in the people who funded Columbus. So, I was a little excited.
We also got to go up into the tower, where when attempting to explain a ticket situation to a security guard I found I spoke fluent Franish. I kept looking at my dad saying, "Crap, that sentence was half french." Needless to say my Spanish can only improve.
After leaving the Alcazar we walked a little dirt trail around the city where we found a beautiful garden, built in old homes...like old homes...like stone. We are thinking they may have been part of the nearby Jewish settlement in historic Segovia. After the hike up the tower and the long dirt trail walk we were all hungry. We decided to go to an old restaurant that someone recommended to us...and had Roasted Suckling Baby Pig....it was surprisingly delicious. However, it probably would have tasted better if I hadn't been able to see the part of the pig I was eating...oh and if Travis hadn't pulled out and waved around the kidney :P.
After lunch we went to the Roman Aqueduct. My professor actually talked about this in class today. It is 2000 years old has never been rebuilt and still functions. Holy cow that's one good architect. He also talked about Toledo, it was the ruling city of the Visigoth kingdom...
Here are, hopefully lets see if my computer cooperates, some pictures so you can see what I'm rambling about.
Unfortunately the best pictures of the Aqueduct are on my Ipod. So i stole this one from online...It doesn't even do it justice.
Segovia was incredible. Sorry to those friends that were texted twenty-or-so pictures. Nerdy history major that I am Segovia was just phenomenal. We went to the Alcazar, which is a castle built on top of Roman and possibly Muslim forts. It also happens to be the castle that Isabella II lived in...as in Ferdinand and Isabella...as in the people who funded Columbus. So, I was a little excited.
We also got to go up into the tower, where when attempting to explain a ticket situation to a security guard I found I spoke fluent Franish. I kept looking at my dad saying, "Crap, that sentence was half french." Needless to say my Spanish can only improve.
After leaving the Alcazar we walked a little dirt trail around the city where we found a beautiful garden, built in old homes...like old homes...like stone. We are thinking they may have been part of the nearby Jewish settlement in historic Segovia. After the hike up the tower and the long dirt trail walk we were all hungry. We decided to go to an old restaurant that someone recommended to us...and had Roasted Suckling Baby Pig....it was surprisingly delicious. However, it probably would have tasted better if I hadn't been able to see the part of the pig I was eating...oh and if Travis hadn't pulled out and waved around the kidney :P.
After lunch we went to the Roman Aqueduct. My professor actually talked about this in class today. It is 2000 years old has never been rebuilt and still functions. Holy cow that's one good architect. He also talked about Toledo, it was the ruling city of the Visigoth kingdom...
Here are, hopefully lets see if my computer cooperates, some pictures so you can see what I'm rambling about.
Unfortunately the best pictures of the Aqueduct are on my Ipod. So i stole this one from online...It doesn't even do it justice.