San Fernando 62 Córdoba

... Soho that overlooks the Guadalquivir river and (again) had drinks and talked with a group of my friends. Thinking back on all of this now, I wish I had known of all the places that I know of now when they came to visit. Sorry guys! Next time?
We visited the pueblo of Montilla and the ruins of Medinat Al-Zarah on Tuesday. We drove up to Montilla to go wine tasting with a group of students from my program. We got to try three wines, which I thought were horrific. I ...

I need to post my photos from the Alcazar. And I now need to post photos from the Mezquita in Cordoba. Both were awesome. Beyond words. They require pictures. But, I am too lazy to post them right now. However, I have a 3.5 hour ride to Granada tomorrow. So hopefully I will get a bit more organized during that trip and post when I arrive at the oasis... no, the hostel is actually called Oasis. :)

Hasta luego mis amigos!

We went to visit the beautiful city of Cordoba about 1.5hrs. from Sevilla. We saw the Mezquita (Mosque), The Ancient Synagogue and The Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos. I absolutely love the architecture of the buildings here in Spain, I have never seen anything like it. There is such a mix of Jewish, Islamic and Christian influences that it looks ...

... at adopting such popular rituals from pagan or folk traditions and then investing themwith significant meaning and supporting the practices with textual references thereby rendering them Jewish. For some, this forced them to ask, "If so much of 'Jewish' practice is based on other people's customs, what is, in fact, Jewish about them?" Is Jewish anything that Jews, as a group, do? Is it Jewish if there are Jewish texts to support a practice? Is being Jewish simply about ...

... helped. We got there and took a tour with this funny British guy with a very interesting sense of humor that it took us Americans a while to pick up on. We went to a famous bridge there over this tiny river (because of the drought). We went to the Jewish quarter and took pictures of the most taken picture there. The tour guide joked that we wouldn't be allowed out of Cordoba if we didn't take a picture of it. We went to a beautiful old ...

... to the famouse Mosque/Cathedral and some modernized Arab Baths. It was quite the sweet field trip, even though we had to be at the bus stop by 8:30... We got there and had freetime, during which Angie, Kelly and I went to the house of the Christian Kings and walked around/took pictures. It was a pretty sweet castle (I have no idea what to really ...

... the Inquisition, and was not heavily used since then. Very rarely it is used for Jewish weddings, but for the most part, it is just a mini-museum now. We had about 3 hours of free time, which of course meant shopping for Cindy and I, since Cordoba is the leading silver producer in the country! The whole area was really cool to walk through because most of the shops were located in former medieval serf villages, which means that there is an open plaza with a fountain or well in ...

... into a soft focus haze in the middle distance. Every so often we would pass the massive, black silhouette of a cardboard-cutout El Toro in all his anatomical glory. The bull is the symbol of Spain. It is also the logo of Osborne's sherry. In the 1980s roadside advertising was outlawed and the Osborne's El Toro was under threat of demolition. Petitions were raised, sit ins organized and today, with the advertising painted out, the Osborne's El Toro is ...

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... that you barely know what is in your own backyard, but you know everything about everyone elses!... ;) I got settled in my so far empty room, and following made my way to the center of Sevilla. As the temperature steadily climbed past 30 degrees, I quickly had enough of the heat and the city, so I made my way back to the hostel and introduced myself to my two new roommates, before I crashed on my bed dreaming abort all the new impressions.