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Day 11 – An Unplanned visit to Segovia 

Hola Todos. Today was a bit of a different one as in mentioned I wanted to do another day trip somewhere. What I originally had in mind was to go to Toledo, Castille’s old capital but it was not meant to be, long story short there were no trains until late in the day and the bus station for Toledo is on the other side of Madrid, which would have taken nearly an hour to get to with about 6 metro changes. 

Still I set out towards this bus station but getting 1/3 of the way I decided it was a non starter and went to Atocha to see if I could get on a train somewhere else, the only option was Segovia however I had to still go back up north to Chamartín. No Biggie we had an hour and a bit to kill so enough time to sort things out.

It’s a high speed train to Segovia and gets us there in 30 mins however the main Guiomar station is a ways outside the city itself and you have to get a €2 bus in which comes round every half hour or take a taxi for €10. I only had about 3 hours of time here and I had just missed the bus so I guess we getting chiselled today!

Once you get into #Segovia it has an impressive Roman Aqueduct which is still intact and runs across the entire historic center and it also has an impressive cathedral and Alcazar castle. Unfortunately I didn’t get to the Alcazar as I didn’t have enough time and once you see the sights it actually feels a bit like a tourist trap here.

Don’t let this out you off visiting though. Just make sure to plan it better than I did!

Thursday is Admin day then Friday we fly so blogging will be slowing down until on the other side.

Hasta Luego!