Ohhhh Segovia! By Chelsea AND John

On Wednesday, we set out on another public transport adventure to Segovia. Fortunately, this went better than the one to Toledo, which was too stressful to talk about yet.... Plus, John was quiet because of all of his burns and he didn't want to move too much. (yay)

Segovia, thankfully wasn't burdened with the hills of Holy Toledo. It was more of a flat, omelet style place.

There are three things to see in Segovia, three. There are more things to see in my room. You have the aqueduct, the cathedral, and the castle. All of these are about a three minute walk from each other. So, three sites by the 15 minutes spent there, plus the three three minute walks, equals five hours of a day trip. Plus lunch. Impressive, huh?

Chelsea-The aqueduct was awesome, and not in the "oh, dude, that banjo is totally awesome" but in the awe-inspiring sense that the word was originally meant to be used for. There is absolutely no mortar holding up the massive thing that spans for about 200 meters. It has been there for over 2,000 years and we totally snagged a piece of loose rock from it for my brother (got him one from the Acropolis 2 years ago). The aqueduct alone is worth going to see Segovia for.

John- The aqueduct obviously had no planning permission. Clearly serving no purpose going right through the middle of the town! Without even a drop of cement! Feckin Romans...what did they ever do for us? Also quite unusual, was the amount of sparrows, and I don't mean four! There had to be at least 1,000, I mean Jesus lads, get a job like!

Chelsea-yes, there were sparrows. Get over it, John. Next was the Cathedral...that we mosied past because we couldn't be bothered to go inside anything holy after spending the previous day in Toledo practically being smacked in the face by Jesus himself.

John- Little bit scared to go into the Cathedral, made out the burns were not due to the sun, but may be due to the large amount of contact with holy objects. Good news is the stigmata's gone!

Chelsea-The third thing we saw was the castle. It was really neat but we were chased by screaming schools of Spanish children on their field trip. It slightly ruined it for me. That and John, the five year old who wanted to go up as high as he possibly could, made me walk up to the tower. Up like a million flights of stairs that spiraled so tightly that you couldn't see the person in front of you and if anyone wanted to come down or up the opposite way of you, well they were S.O.L. It was very beautiful though. Nice view. And by nice, I mean we could see for miles and miles in every direction and it was gorgeous.

John- Well, anyone that knows me knows I'm a five year old at heart--well, we'll say ten year old, at least give me that much! So when I saw the field trip of kids, I thought "yayy fun!" First game that I wanted to play with them was "How many of them will fit in the moat??" Because I think they would have been good at that game! 40 foot drop? They would've been fine! They were basically like Japanese tourists! Their cellphones, their flashing cameras...only difference was these were a little taller! Basically, it was a case of musical rooms; every room we went into, they followed--it was a nightmare. To clarify about the St. John Tower, which already sounded awesome from the word go, hadn't had million flights of stairs that were previously stated, but 152 steps. That's right people: 152. God bless her, she's beautiful but she really can't count. And it was totally worth it!! So far, my favorite scene of the trip was up on that tower.