Europe 2017 – day 06

Our two days in Barcelona were over way too soon, and it was time to hit the road for our next destination, Toledo.
A couple of hours out of Barcelona and it was time for a break. We stopped at Zaragoza and marveled at the four pillars rising above the cathedral. The interior was equally impressive but I decided to honor the sign requests not to take photographs.
We hit the road again and a couple of hours later when it was time for another break, we pulled off the highway into a little town called Medinaceli.
A glance up the hill between a couple of buildings revealed a Roman arch high up on the hill. We drove up there and found the original village of the same name. This was a photographer’s dream. It was here that I shot the image of the cobblestone streets with the red flowers by the wall.
We headed on to Toledo, booked into our Air b’n’b and then went and perused the old part of town. Again, for a photographer who comes from a country with a history of only 200 years, Toledo represented a photographic smorgasbord of cobblestone streets, ancient buildings, and beautiful artwork.
Late in the evening, I took a drive around town. I rounded a corner and across the other side of town, I could see the beautifully illuminated Alcazar of Toledo. Whether by fluke or by design, almost no other buildings around it have lights shining on them in the evening, which makes the Alcazar really stand out in the landscape!

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