{"id":48,"date":"2016-12-09T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:28:10","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday (4th December 2016) my friend and I went to Toledo (a city South-West of Madrid) to do some Christmas shopping and to see the Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo above is of the opening to The Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo which is situated in the main plaza. Here, they had a market selling a variety of gifts including leather goods, jewellery, ornaments and food. You can&#8217;t forget the food! There was also a carousel for the children, although I really wanted to go on it &#8211; still a child at heart.<\/p>\n<p>The market was very festive with baubles, bells and strings of lights. Down the streets there were bigger lights hanging overhead which I&#8217;m sure would have looked spectacular when lit up (we missed them turning on as we had to get our coach back!).<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is one of my favourite times of year and I love how everyone puts in the effort to decorate with lights etc &#8211; it creates such a cosy and festive atmosphere!<\/p>\n<p>16 sleeps until Christmas Day!<\/p>\n<p>The photo below shows part of the market in the plaza.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8389-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_8389\" width=\"246\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8389-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8389-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8389-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_8389-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Top photo: Canon EOS 500D, ISO-3200, f\/32, 1\/60 sec.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom photo: Canon EOS 500D, ISO-3200, f\/22, 1\/60 sec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/?p=48\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,18,17,19,21,3,11,16],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yearabroad","tag-cathedral","tag-christmas","tag-erasmus","tag-lights","tag-market","tag-spain","tag-toledo","tag-travel","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libbylizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}