03/07/03 — Wireless in Toledo? Not likely.
Didn't find wireless access but did find a nice community net space that was happy to plug Inanna (the laptop... the old one was Enki) into their LAN. Nice people. Spent the morning uploading pictures to my journal and working.
Wandered around the town near the Puerta Bisagra. Was somewhat confused that David and I managed to miss going to the Circo Romano last time we were in Toledo. Was he not in his mad Roman phase yet? It's just outside the town walls...
Met more nice people last night. For a town of 70,000, Toledo has its fair share of pierced and interesting folk, happy to chat to strange Australians wearing "Good girls need spanking too" on their T-shirts. I think I finally have the translation of that down pat. At least when I tried to explain it to the security guy at the Cathedral when I was asking about what time the big Bishop guy is making his grand entrance to the main gates tomorrow in full pomp on his return from Rome, he laughed and said something which I'm pretty sure was "Well, if you want me to spank you, I'd be very happy to." I politely declined. I also politely declined the offer from the 75 year-old in the bar who said that I could come and stay with him for free for the whole five weeks if I wanted to. Of course, he only had one bed...
Funny how travelling has made me use this thing more as a diary... in Melbourne I was very reluctant to put up daily happenings... probably because they involved the people reading them... Will muse more on the nature of privacy at a later date. There's also a post on faith versus reason that will be on its way for the delectation of Christian Read.
Oh, and what *is* it with Crowded House? I heard it on French radio in the mid-eighties when I was a teenager, I heard it in Barcelona, I hear it here. At least everyone I talk to says: Oh you're Australian? Nick Cave is ace, isn't he?
Anyhow, off to read my fabulous new book, Dead Air by Iain Banks. Yay for little hidden Toledan shops that sell books in English.
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| ^^ The priests in the Catedrale. Apparently someone had just come back from Rome, hecne the pomp. | ^^ The text concerns the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. (Click for a large image) |