Las Adelfas Hotel Córdoba

... hour drive to Cordoba. Shae slept most of the way. The drive was nice with beautiful scenery of olive orchards the whole way there. We arrived in Cordoba - which is a huge city - early evening. We had dinner in one of the many squares in town. It was pretty good food. We walked around the square a bit - but we were already done with the big city on the first night. We couldn't wait to get to Montejaque in the mountains the next day.

So we left Seville at a more reasonable time of the morning, but still meant getting up at 7h30am... this early morning certainly have not made this seem like vacation...

we went to Cordoba and really theonly thing to see there is the La Mezquita - beautiful... we will upload pics when we can get to good internet services.... but really once you have seen this site... you are done with ...

July 19

I just finished doing a 2-day laundry in the bidet. Now I know what that thing is for. It's 11:07pm, just in from dinner. I tried, but I didn’t succeed, getting our restaurant waiter downstairs to heat-up my taco chicken fajita: mas picante!...but to no affect. On the topic of condiments, at an earlier restaurant a few hours ago when it was still 40 degrees, two American couples, upper ...

... world than us and the little sheltered home of America that we come from. I relish the idea of living my life from here on out putting others ahead of me and my "problems." Tyler and I have decided to move back home because of all of the discussions that we have had concerning this topic. There is no one in the world more important to us than family and friends and we dont want to miss out on anymore time away from those who love ...

... to care.

As I walk back to the train station, I'm taken aback by a peculiar thing. A small van full of oranges is blocking the street, and a few men with sticks are bringing down the fruit from the trees. The pavement and the curbs are covered with oranges, and walking here is dangerous because they are slippery. I watch every step I take, and slowly march away.

... stuff for lunch and lay on the beach for a couple of hours. It was about a 3 hour drive to Cordoba from there, so we left mid afternoon and drove back past Seville, arriving into the town just before dinnertime. Cordoba was absolutely dead and so we managed to find a park really close to the hostel, out by the river. The hostel was pretty cool, they had a welcome board where they wrote our names! They also had a rooftop terrace. I dumped my stuff and went off in search of milk ...

... one of the popular placas/markets in the city. Busy due to the Saturday traffic, we found a table at a cafe and enjoyed people watching as several wedding and bachelorette parties made their way through. A Saturday in Spain is definitely a sight to see; everyone is out in the city enjoying the weather and the food. Speaking of food, we had an interesting dish here that could easily be described as a deep fried log of sausage surrounded by ...

... on the bottom tier of chairs the lives of all the martyrs from the time. Each has a picture of the person engraved int he back with a smaller image of how they were killed...sounds morbid but it was very cool.In comparison to the simplicity of the mosque though it was very visually overwhelming... Our final stop was the Arabic Baths... It is very important in the islamic faitht o be clean sooothey had thse bath houses all over with a ...

... of columns and arches, as far as the eye can see, as far as the mind can fathom. Indeed, the arches seem to "fade" off into the distance, as do mountains as well. Pictures, unless taken in a special manner, cannot emulate the appearance of the inside. The interior glows gold, and the lighting is very dim. You can see, but it's as if you must use your other senses to see "completely". During certain moments, the crowds dispersed, and I truly felt like I was in another world ...

... the Tango, and Argentine dance, and we all had a ball trying to learn it. At this point in the story came the moment you´ve all been waiting for (which I had been dreading since the Scottish reels had first begun). "Jake," they all asked. "Do you know any traditional dances from America???!!!" Ugh. Alas, I had been spotted for what I truly was: a fast-food munching, TV-watching, gas-guzzling, cultureless American! Quickly, I told them that Americans didn´t ...