Sunday, 18 October 2015

Sunday 11th October 2015 – Segovia, Spain

This morning was much warmer than recently, 13ºC first thing, but it was cloudy and threatened to rain. We hadn’t seen all of the old town and therefore wanted to return. There were two particular sites that we wanted to visit, the Museum of Segovia and the Alcazar. The museum of Segovia was very good and very quiet but when we got to the Alcazar there were thousands of tourists and the queue for tickets was enormous. We realised that if we joined the queue, we wouldn’t get much else done, so we decided to leave the Alcazar for our next visit, preferably not at a weekend.
We wandered around some of the town walls and the many other places of interest before settling for a Sunday lunch at La Cueva de San Esteban, choosing different options from the menu. On the way back we picked out some palaces to pass by and then chose a route parallel to the aqueduct that gave us a more realistic view of the lives of the Segovians.

Photos: A section of the Segovia walls; Suckling pig at a Segovia restaurant; Sunday afternoon entertainment in the Plaza Mayor was a rock band – nowhere as good as the folk band but I was impressed that the lead singer was the drummer; One of the two very impressive organs in Segovia’s cathedral.



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