Things I will miss....

As my departure date rapidly approaches I’ve been thinking about all the things that I will miss about living in Toledo, and so I decided to write a list (some of these are a little sarcastic, can you guess which?)

• · Being able to go out of the house without a big jacket most of the year.
• · Free tapas with your drink
• · Buying beer in a litre bottle for a euro
• · Not having to decide if I want to go out until 2am because none of the parties have started until then anyway
• · Outside clubs, ‘nuff said
• · Coming home at 7am after dancing all night and passing out when you get home
• · Being able to speak Spanish with people!
• · Dodgy Spanish hair-dos (more like hair-don’t’s)
• · Nosy neighbours
• · The tiny streets (beautiful, but they mean you’re very likely to get run-down)
• · Reggaeton
• · Camelot (a club bearing more than passing resemblance to a cave which hosted the majority of the Erasmus parties)
• · Erasmus people
• · Erasmus parties
• · Botellon
• · Running by the River Tragus (Rio Tajo)
• · How short the men are
• · The long walk along the river which gives you the most amazing panoramic views of the city (Camino de Don Quijote)
• · Being able to go food shopping at half 8 because Carrefour doesn’t close until 9
• · Not being ID’ed every five seconds when I go out, or even when I want to buy alcohol
• · How beautiful Toledo is and how lucky I feel to live here
• · How relaxed the professors are, to the point where they always turn up 20 minutes late for class
• · How the banks are only open until 2 and never on weekends......
• · Being able to turn up an hour late to everything and no one even bats an eyelid
• The sunset
  
• · Being able to say “Oh I’m living in Spain at the moment”.....

Seriously, the closer I get to leaving, I realise how much I will miss EVERYTHING here, even the things that at the time really p me off....But by the same token, I am very ready to go home to England, and to continue on with my life, wherever it will take me. I’m hoping the road leads back to Spain, even back to Toledo, who knows? I would love to live here again.

Toledo, you will always have a piece of my heart.

:D