09/08/2018

Toledo for daggers

We're now launched on a 5.5 month stay in Europe. For the first three weeks my daughter and her family will be with us. Last week we stayed at an airbnb in Madrid. From there are three World Heritage sites within an hour of the city by train so it's an excellent base. Never mind the temperature hovered around 105° the entire time, the hottest in the city's recorded history, we visited a thousand year-old castle, 800 year-old cathedrals, 2000 year-old Roman walls, roads, and shrines stuffed with saints bones and the skulls of long dead Catholic Cardinals however, the big event was visiting Fabrica Zamorano, the shop of Mariano Zamorano, master sword smith of Toledo.

Mariano Zamorano - Master swordsmith of Toledo
For just under $1000, Clark bought four daggers,
gifts for his two daughters, his wife, and one for himself.

Now we're in good old London where it's about 40° cooler and raining.


3 comments:

Paula said...

Neato! Hope it cools off. It’s been beastly in SoCal too.

asha said...

Supposedly it cooled off the day we left. London is cool though which is a great relief. I hope things are beginning to cool off in SoCal. The whole west coast is blazing. It's really terrible.

Roy said...

Ironically, this summer, Kansas City has been having the best weather of all those places. Here's hoping all the fires everywhere get under control and things settle down.