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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Segovia

Segovia: Spain is blessed with several superb medieval cities but Segovia is possibly one of the superbiest. But there are one or two rules to observe when first visiting it:
1. Get a street map before you go.
2. Place no reliance whatsoever on your satnav/GPS. They can't cope with the city's one-way system nor with its practice of bollarding off of its streets that you can get into.
3. Go in the cooler months of spring and autumn but avoid 'bridge' weekends, when Spanish tourists take up most of the hotel rooms.
4. Remember that, as elsewhere in Spain, the Turismo office maintains neither Spanish nor normal hours and closes at 6. Or, rather, 5.45 - to allow the employees to leave by 6.


As a result of satnav problems, we took at least 30 minutes to get out of the city on Thursday night and 45 to get into it today from our hotel 8km outside it. And this included a long stretch through what may well have been a pedestrian area down to the aqueduct. Which didn't do much for my popularity.


Finally: A sign inside the bus station: 'TOILETS: We are reforming the bus station. Please, you should surround the building and enter through the front door to access these. '

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