Touching Toledo

March 26
Had breakfast. Left for El Palacio Real. Ie The Royal Palace. See pictures. Really interesting. Especially the tombs. Apparently, in the royal tombs there's space only for the grandfather and grandmother of the current king. This is something you're going to have to ask me about in person because I'm trying to finish these backed up posts as fast as possible in as much detail as possible. Anyway, we saw various rooms and how beautifully they were adorned and they showed the room with enough silver and gold objects that would make Chris Woolley go bald with envy at how well they've been crafted. Later, we had lunch and went to the Sophia Art museum which would've been better if we were allowed to wonder around on our own and meet up later instead of being shepherded the entire time. Saw some Dali works and Picasso's infamous painting of the bombing of the village which escapes me now. Went to Toledo. Checked into the hotel. Went over academic stuff and had dinner. Went to bed.

Spanish Television
Spanish television has to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. For example, I saw a show about murders solved by the Guardia Civil. During one of the reenactments, they played Duel of the Fates in the background. I laughed. Hard. So hard that I felt better about my cell phone (they call them mobiles here, the heathens). As far as I could tell the guy was a member of ETA who assassinated or tried to assassinate a captain of the Guardia Civil. He then went on a killing spree as he tried to flee the authorities and after killing three people in cold blood and trying to kill two more, the guy just gives up. I'll never understand Spaniards. On the plus side, the sitcoms here are funnier (I'll explain in the next post.). Also, they show different anime show here and I can understand what they say (plus I can find them on netflix in English which is good for me.)