Of Tapas, Monasteries and R2d2 shirts
May. 22nd, 2005 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieWel, another lovely day where I learn to ask for the check and order things off the menu by guessing: it worked out fine, since it was Extremadura cuisine and I just pointed and hoped for the best.
We went to Toledo today, an absolutely amazing medieval city. It is the setting forone of my favorite ever books: Spanish Ballad by Leon Feuchtwanger (about a star crossed and reallife love affair between King Alfonso and a daughter of his Jewish finance minister), so it was doubly fun. I took about a hundred pictures and saw a church that was so ornate that (according to Andrew) it made St.Peter´s look shabby. I guess the locals weren´t big on the ¨poverty¨ part.
The Monastery was absoultely gorgeous and peaceful except for the bizarre chains hanging off to the side the meaning of which I have yet to figure out.
Tomorrow off to Cordoba...
Oh, and saw a man with an R2D2 and C3PO shirt. I guess SW fever is certainly here.
Also, SW thoughts:
1. Proof of Jedi ossifying: they set to spy on Palpyetc not because they think he is Sith but (at least the way they explain it) he is curtailing the Jedi. Bad, bad, bad.
2. Obi Wan, you poor man. You shouldn´t confuse Anakin further by saying he should do the Council´s bidding while indicating you don´t believe in what they are proposing. That just messes him up more. If the guy is confused, you should sit him down and explain, especially if he is a person who does not deal well with ambiguity. Also, probably should have been a bit less of a disciplinarian, since certain people will only rebel and not cave in at last.../randomness....
We went to Toledo today, an absolutely amazing medieval city. It is the setting forone of my favorite ever books: Spanish Ballad by Leon Feuchtwanger (about a star crossed and reallife love affair between King Alfonso and a daughter of his Jewish finance minister), so it was doubly fun. I took about a hundred pictures and saw a church that was so ornate that (according to Andrew) it made St.Peter´s look shabby. I guess the locals weren´t big on the ¨poverty¨ part.
The Monastery was absoultely gorgeous and peaceful except for the bizarre chains hanging off to the side the meaning of which I have yet to figure out.
Tomorrow off to Cordoba...
Oh, and saw a man with an R2D2 and C3PO shirt. I guess SW fever is certainly here.
Also, SW thoughts:
1. Proof of Jedi ossifying: they set to spy on Palpyetc not because they think he is Sith but (at least the way they explain it) he is curtailing the Jedi. Bad, bad, bad.
2. Obi Wan, you poor man. You shouldn´t confuse Anakin further by saying he should do the Council´s bidding while indicating you don´t believe in what they are proposing. That just messes him up more. If the guy is confused, you should sit him down and explain, especially if he is a person who does not deal well with ambiguity. Also, probably should have been a bit less of a disciplinarian, since certain people will only rebel and not cave in at last.../randomness....
