Toledo

The morning was spent working on the van. It seems that we now have to carry 5 types of fluid in the van. The fan for the heater stopped working a week ago too. Julie, tired of looking at bug guts on the window, decided to adjust the spray nozzles for the windshield. We topped up the engine coolant and oil and managed to finally fix the loose wiring for our music. It was a fairly successful morning and the van drove much better for our efforts.
Our camping guide book tells us that the highways in Spain are tolled, and yet we manage to find ourselves on them most of the time without any toll booths. For this reason, the drive to Toledo was fast and easy. We managed to find parking just below the old town. The old town is completely surrounded with old city walls and fortifications. The streets are narrow, some of the narrowest we have come across to date. It was also extremely easy to get lost in this city, as none of the streets run in any logical direction and sometimes they lead to a dead end of sorts. It took us some time to locate the tourist office, but because of this, we managed to see a fair bit of Toledo’s old town. There were so many knife stores and the like. One of which we stopped in to have a closer look as it had Lord of the Rings memorabilia which was something different. Everything was too expensive so we left. We know that Toledo has some interesting history, and if it wasn’t 50 euros each for a late night guided stroll through the town, I would have more to say about Toledo, but I don’t. It was getting dark outside and we have a schedule to keep so we headed out of town, tired and not sure if we could manage the drive to Portugal this night.