Day 21: Cordoba
Been travelling around the last few days without access to a computer for long enough to blog, so this entry´s going to be jampacked, but also quick since the ´net place I´m at closes in 20 minutes.
So, our plan to sleep on it and decide our plans for Sevilla and Andalucia in the morning backfired, since all the hotels and hostels that were showing availability on Tuesday night had closed their reservations by Wednesday morning. We did wind up booking a place, but probably paid 20 euros more than we needed. We also slept in late and wound up spending longer waiting to buy train tickets, but we were still able to squeeze in the Reina Sofia museum before the train left. We got to Sevilla about 8pm, giving us just long enough to walk around a bit and have a cheap dinner before turning in early(ish).
Yesterday, Thursday, was packed. We got up early(ish) hoping to get on the free Internet at the hostal during breakfast, but were denied. We headed out and saw the Torre de Oro, saw the Alcazar palace and gardens, saw the Cathedral and climbed up the Giralda, and saw the Archivos de India and its Columbus exhibit. We found another cheap place for lunch, and went back to the hostel for a siesta, and also to finally get on the Internet and book a place for Granada on Saturday, but decided to chance it on Alhambra tickets and accomodation for Cordoba. After siesta, we headed back out and saw the Plaza de España and walked along the river for a while before turning in.
(Aside: Remember when I was moaning about how hot it was in Prague? I was being a baby, southern Spain is hot. The low in Sevilla yesterday was 23 Celsius at dawn, and it hit 43 Celsius by late afternoon. That is f&!king hot!)
Today we were up early and had a leisurely breakfast before heading out to the train station early for our afternoon train to Cordoba. Once in Cordoba we walked in the heat a bit with our packs trying to find a cheaper hotel and found one, then went out to eat and watch the Spain-Saudi Arabia match (1-0? Not good, when the papers here were talking about total blow-outs. My quarter-finals bouncing prediction still stands.) For the rest of the evening we´ve been walking around trying to find museums that are open and Zafeer bought a shirt. Now, it´s 9:30 and we´re off to do a night visit of the Alcazar gardens.
Tomorrow, we´re seeing the Mezquita during the morning, and off to Granada in the afternoon. We´d hoped to get tickets for the Alhambra for Sunday but they´re out, so we´re going to get up early and try to get lucky. Hope our procrastination doesn´t backfire and burn us too badly.
So, our plan to sleep on it and decide our plans for Sevilla and Andalucia in the morning backfired, since all the hotels and hostels that were showing availability on Tuesday night had closed their reservations by Wednesday morning. We did wind up booking a place, but probably paid 20 euros more than we needed. We also slept in late and wound up spending longer waiting to buy train tickets, but we were still able to squeeze in the Reina Sofia museum before the train left. We got to Sevilla about 8pm, giving us just long enough to walk around a bit and have a cheap dinner before turning in early(ish).
Yesterday, Thursday, was packed. We got up early(ish) hoping to get on the free Internet at the hostal during breakfast, but were denied. We headed out and saw the Torre de Oro, saw the Alcazar palace and gardens, saw the Cathedral and climbed up the Giralda, and saw the Archivos de India and its Columbus exhibit. We found another cheap place for lunch, and went back to the hostel for a siesta, and also to finally get on the Internet and book a place for Granada on Saturday, but decided to chance it on Alhambra tickets and accomodation for Cordoba. After siesta, we headed back out and saw the Plaza de España and walked along the river for a while before turning in.
(Aside: Remember when I was moaning about how hot it was in Prague? I was being a baby, southern Spain is hot. The low in Sevilla yesterday was 23 Celsius at dawn, and it hit 43 Celsius by late afternoon. That is f&!king hot!)
Today we were up early and had a leisurely breakfast before heading out to the train station early for our afternoon train to Cordoba. Once in Cordoba we walked in the heat a bit with our packs trying to find a cheaper hotel and found one, then went out to eat and watch the Spain-Saudi Arabia match (1-0? Not good, when the papers here were talking about total blow-outs. My quarter-finals bouncing prediction still stands.) For the rest of the evening we´ve been walking around trying to find museums that are open and Zafeer bought a shirt. Now, it´s 9:30 and we´re off to do a night visit of the Alcazar gardens.
Tomorrow, we´re seeing the Mezquita during the morning, and off to Granada in the afternoon. We´d hoped to get tickets for the Alhambra for Sunday but they´re out, so we´re going to get up early and try to get lucky. Hope our procrastination doesn´t backfire and burn us too badly.
posted by Carlos at 9:01 PM
2 Comments:
you know what's also hot? luongo for bert, bitches!
¡joé, que caló!
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