Rather then see more of Toledo in the AM, we decide to blast back up to Madrid to see the Royal Palace, (closed a few day ago when it was on our original agenda). Worth the 30 minute drive back the Madrid. Parked the car, Tom pinned it on his i-Phone then a multiple block trek (30 minutes) to the Royal Palace. A good walk through of the Palace. 3,400 rooms, we saw about 25, that’s less than 1%! Extravagance beyond belief. The 15th and 16th centuries were crazy for Spain. As the most powerful country in the world they chose to prove it by this show of opulence. It is still used for state functions, probably why it was closed last week. A few pictures I downloaded from Wiki.
In the basement was the armory. Hundreds of sets of armor for both man (and kids in training), and horses. Hundreds of weapons as well. Again, overwhelming.
After our time at the Palace, it was another walk back to the car. After wandering/retracing our steps for an hour, Tom accidently deleted his pin, (not that it helped much anyway). We were lost in Madrid with everything in our car buried in an underground parking lot.. Fortunately Gloria remembered a cross street and with a paper map we reoriented on my phone and found the garage. 90 minutes of searching. Android-1, Apple-0 this go around.
Finally, if you are still with me. At 9:00pm the temperature was 107 degrees!
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