June 19

This morning we took full advantage of our own room and bathroom, sleeping late and long showers. After my morning cafe con leche we headed to this convent where nuns have taken a vow to be secluded, but they are supposed to make this wonderful pastry. We hunted down this place to ask for "dulce" and a sweet old man at the church helped us locate the lazy susan/barrier area where we couldn´t see the nuns but they could talk to us and exchange money for baked goods. It was a very neat experience, but the resulting sweets were like Mexican wedding cookies- not very good and not what we were expecting. Syd got a video clip of the exchange so that was pretty entertaining. We had a very nice, cheap salad lunch at none other than Micky D´s, and got an 30 minute train to Toledo, a town south of Madrid.
The train station is about 500 m from town, so we had to walk, too far in my opinion, with our backpacks on, and it started raining all before we found a Pension to stay in for the night. We did make it though and we have a private double room with clean beds. Syd and I walked farther into the city center for dinner. We split Paella at an outdoors cafe in the city square and people watched the locals for hours. We also sampled a little Marzipan for dessert, something Toledo is famous for. As we made our way back to the hostel we stopped in a bar to catch some of the Spanish World Cup game with the locals.