The tour was very good. The quite helpful guide. The time of the walk in Ávila is really very short, but we were able to get an idea of what the city was like. We had a hard time finding the address of the meeting point, it is not so close to the metro how much we estimate the walking time.

The guide was very insightful, and this tour allowed us to see beautiful sights outside Madrid without the hassle of figuring out travel. I would have appreciated if we had more time at the aqueducts. Our bus was too full to tour Alcazar together, which means we had to wait for the other group to go through the fortress: this resulted in us having only ~15 minutes to enjoy the aqueduct before lunch. Though the gourmet lunch & wine was very delicious, in hindsight, I would have omitted that option and gotten a quick gyro-to-go so that I had more time at the aqueduct.

While on the 1.25 hour drive from Madrid to Segovia, our guide Sylvia rapidly explained things first in Spanish and then in English. Unfortunately she spoke so quickly I didn’t understand much of what she told us. We wore an earphone for the walking portion of the tour which wanted to fall off my ear but allowed her voice to come in loud and clear. On other tours I’ve found it helpful for the guide to have the guests to introduce themselves and their countries—that was not done in this case though some of us did chat a bit with each other. I apparently booked my tour with a meal that the others had not—so I dined alone at a cafe that Sylvia led me to. I chose the meal upgrade to the cochinillo—I’m not sure it was worth the added expense as I’ve nothing to compare it to. Had I to do it over again, I’d have taken my chances on my own in choosing a spot to dine in Segovia. By the time lunch ended there wasn’t much free time remaining to shop so I chose to walk along the aqueduct instead.