Córdoba, Spain

Traveling from Madrid to Córdoba was the only time we lost anything. We left our Spanish translator lying on our train seat. We were upset, but glad it took us six weeks to lose something!

We found our hotel and met the owner, who was very nice. He told us about breakfast and all the food they have and then he kept joking about having whiskey with breakfast, though it was in Spanish so we are not completely sure. He was funny. He told us that we could get tickets to see a very good flamenco show in town. We told him to get us tickets.

August 3, 2001: Puente Romano (bridge) across the Rio Guadalquivir

After meeting him, we crashed for a nap. But first we found some English television. It was Anna of the Indies with Elizabeth Taylor. She was a pirate and we watched the whole thing. English is so entertaining!

Then we walked around the Juderia (Jewish Quarter) and saw the Mezquita (mosque). Then we had dinner in Plaza de la Tendillas. We soon learned that all the food in Andalusia has eggs in or on it!

The Mezquita – built in 784 as a mosque, at the time it was the largest in the world. In the 1500s it was converted to a church.

The Mezquita

The Juderia (Jewish Quarter)

Our dinner of Andalusian cuisine (eggs were on everything)

The next day we got up for breakfast, but we had no whiskey. We bought bus tickets for our Marbella trip and we tried to find an Internet place, but it was closed for the afternoon. We soon learned that nothing was open for another hour or so.

We had walked a very long way to the Internet place and the bus station and it was very hot, about 95ºF. So we stopped for some icy treats. There was nowhere to eat but in the hot sun on the hot black marble benches! We now understood why nothing was open – it was too hot to be working!

So we checked out the Lladro Porcelain Figurines. Then we were exhausted, so we did as the Spaniards, we took a nap. Then we ate dinner in the Juderia.