Okay … wifi is working (barely), so I’ll quickly post a few more photos. We went out for a walk around 8:00PM, when it had cooled down … hah! Well, at least it was no longer over 100°. We finally saw people out and about, which we sure hadn’t seen earlier. The people who live here know better! We walked past the Mosque-Cathedral again, and ended up at the Roman Bridge before the dinner search.
Eventually we landed at a restaurant that was more contemporary, enjoyed a nice meal, and headed back, cameras in hand.
Today we left Sevilla and took a short (and fast!) train ride to Córdoba, as it had been highly recommended to me (the city, not the train!). Little did we know it was going to be as hot as can be, but we will deal. We also didn’t realize how much will be closed tomorrow, but we primarily wanted to get to the Mosque Cathedral and tower, and will probably also visit the Torre de la Calahorra and the Roman bridge. Anything else will be an extra bonus: we only have the one full day here.
Arriving in our room at the Eurostars Azahar we found no access to the free internet advertised, and the room safe isn’t working. Ah well. Minor glitches, really. I did ask if we could simply be moved to another room with a working safe and was told they had no other rooms available. I kind of figured the woman just wasn’t allowed to move us (I checked and they do have empty rooms … in fact I’ve barely seen anyone here). Oh well. Not worth being an annoying American about this, and I have connected to my phone so I can post this now. I might not post about the rest of the day, but only time will tell.
But now to the day … we checked out of the hotel and took the taxi to the train station. Thankfully we made sure we got on the right train (there were two in a row and one does have to be careful!
We arrived in Córdoba about 49 minutes later and easily got into our room, although we were told the only thing available was on the ground floor. (I suppose something higher would have been nice for views. We have no view at all, really. Whatever. We don’t spend too much time in our room! Okay, we do spend more time in rooms here in Spain: it’s simply too hot to go out sometimes. Right now, as I am typing, it is 101° outside … and it’s 7:30PM! But look at that photo below … me … in a skirt! No, it’s NOT that short … I was just trying to cool off! And, truth be told, I think I should dump it because I think it’s a tad too tight in the waist. Doggone it, I shouldn’t have dumped some clothes before the trip because I probably will need a larger size again. ARGH!
After a bit of time we headed out to find a light lunch. What a maze of streets! It is quite easy to get lost. (What did we all do before we had our phones that could help us get back to our hotels?)
The man who checked us in directed us to an area that would have more traditional food rather than the tourist fare so we went to a place we thought fit that. Trying to order with our nearly non-existent Spanish and the server’s non-existent English was sort of funny, but he put up with us and I had my wonderful bowl of cold soup again (I’m addicted!) and Dan had his chorizo. FINALLY we had a small lunch. (Please, waist, will you go back to what you were now that I’m trying to behave?!) Then it was heading back to the hotel and, yes, we had to use the phone to navigate.
We’ve been in our room ever since (except when Dan went to see if someone could help with the WIFI (nope!) and safe (nope again!). Can you guess why we have stayed in our air-conditioned room? Hm. I wonder.
But now we are down to … wait for it … a cool 101°. But hey, tomorrow looks to be a CRAZY hot day. Thankfully our tours are in the morning. Who knows what will do for the rest of the time. I can’t imagine being out in the predicted heat:
