WYD Toledo - Toledo Tour

We've found out over the last few days what a beautiful city Toledo is and today we were given the opportunity to sample it up close walking around the narrow cobbled streets for a few hours this afternoon. Initially we'd obviously been slightly sceptical with regards wandering around busy streets during the hottest part of the day but how could we turn down the chance to see such beauty up close? We had a quick drive up to one of the higher points in the city and met up at the Seminary where we watched a video about the history of Toledo before being taken to other key sites, stopping for ice cream and gift buying on the way, then finishing up at the Cathedral of St Mary right in the centre of the city.

It's fair to say that some of the places we visited literally left us lost for words as we seemed to go from one beautiful building to another. Churches, museums, seminaries, convents with each and every one seemingly more picturesque than the previous one.

Father Alberto was on hand again to give us some information about each of the stops that we made although until we found the monkey sitting on a potty on the wall in one of the buildings we really did think he was trying to have a bit of fun with us fine English folk!

As our tour drew to a close we were able to meet up with some groups from other Nations that we'd spent just a little bit of time with in the Seminary at the start of the day for a concert outside of the Cathedral. Some of us were then taken once again by our host families to see some of the smaller places that we hadn't visited previously with the bigger group and although by the end of this day we were certainly ready for bed by the time we got back to our accommodation it had been worth all the effort to sample the culture of this wonderful city first hand like that.