We just spent a nice day touring around in beautiful Toledo, a city where once three cultues lived in harmony (Jews Christians and Moors). The Cathedral was absolutely amazing and houses El Greco´s most famous paintings. The architecture and design was amazing. We stopped at a factory where they make the famous Damasce (SP?) jewellery. We toured a very old synagogue. We toured with a group from Quebec so our tour guide had to explain everything in French and English. Our tour guide told us that she and other tour guides were talking and were amazed at how wonderful the pilgrims were for Madrid and area.
Madrid feels very different today. Most pilgrims have gone home. The subways are dead compared to how they were a few days ago, when they were filled with singing, happy, dancing pilgrims. The streets are much easier to manouvre through, but they also lost their happy energy.
We are having 10 p.m. Mass tonight here in the hotel.
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