Peluquería

peluquería = hair salon

(I figured out how to change the size of my pictures, so these are a little bigger than usual.  Also, you can click on them to view them at their original size, which is pretty ginormous thanks to my super-hi-tech-awesome camera.)

Oh boy!  I went to Segovia today!

Bet you've never heard of Segovia, huh?  I hadn't, either.  It was sort of a last-minute decision.  It's not very far at all from Madrid—our train took about twenty minutes to get there (Madrid is forty-five minutes from Alcalá).

We were delayed slightly when we got to Madrid and realized that the train to Segovia departed from a different station in Madrid, and by the time we got there, we had to wait an hour for the next train to come.  We got into Segovia around noon, at which point Rick Steves told us we could walk into town, so we did.  It was mostly highway, and it took us about an hour, but we stopped to (try to) feed a horse on the way and it was a nice walk.

Once in Segovia, we found our bearings and were able to locate the aqueduct.  In case you don't know, an aqueduct is an ancient Roman structure used to transport water from the distant mountains into a city.  The whole thing is built with a very slight angle downward toward the city, and the water flows through a channel at the top.

This is what the aqueduct looked like when we found it:

 

This is what it looked like after we followed it into the city:

 

It was so. big.  I was totally in awe.  I took almost two hundred pictures while we were in Segovia today, using up all the memory on my card, and I think at least a third of them were just this aqueduct at different angles.  It was so cool.

We also saw the Cathedral:

...and the Palacio:

We also tried a famous Segovian dessert, called ponche.  Imagine this: a thin layer of sponge cake, a layer of crême brulée (including the burnt sugar), another layer of sponge cake, the whole thing wrapped in what i think was like a marzipan fondant, and some apricot jam on top.  It was basically delicious.

 

The day was mostly a lot of walking around and not very long, but really, the aqueduct made it worthwhile.

In other news, I need to look into a peluquería because I realized today that my hair is far too long and riddled with split ends, and if I chopped off six or seven inches it would STILL be really really long, which means that should probably happen as soon as possible.

Aaaand all of this took place yesterday.  I only got around to posting it today.  Whoooooops.