Bright and early, at the ass crack of dawn, I got up for the bus to go to Córdova. It was 7 O'Clock in the morning and the sun wasn't even out. I was kinda weirded out by this, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the sun didn't come out. Back home the sun comes out between 5 or 6 am. Another difference to check off to Spain. The joke is really the fact that it took me over a month to realize this, I get up past 8 and so does Spain so I didn't know.
It took me all of 20 minutes to get ready and left. Miguel Angel told us, that at 8 a.m. the bus would leave with or without us. So of course running on Latino Time I barely made it to the bus on time.
This trip took much longer than I thought. However, the weather kept changing every half hour. It went from Sunny (when the sun finally popped out) to Foggy, to a raining back to sunny.
When we finally got into Córdova, she got off and was given the tour of the Alcazar and the Jewish quarter. Then came lunch. The guide, Miguel Angel and Nerea gave us almost 2 hours of roaming time in the city.
The great thing that came out of these 2 hours: I SAW THE QUEEN!!! lol Damn that lady is loaded!
At 5pm everyone left to go back to Granada. 5 others and myself, decided to just take a train to Sevilla.
The city of Córdova is pretty much just a cultural treasure cove of history! There was so much of it everywhere and every society.
La Mezquita de Córdova was amazing and just simply wonderful! There are endless rows of Muslim arches.
...Now to be stupid! They kept on giving us the tour and of course I was being a dumbass, because of the corner of my eye what do I see? GOLD. So I was inching my way over to the spectacle that was sure to be TONS of gold. Sure enough when the tour-guide took us to the little museum of the cathedral there was a STATUE made purely out of gold. The guide told us that it was 300 lbs. of pure gold brought back from the NEW WORLD. Then I said, "Shit, It looks like I'm coming back tonight for my cut." After that room we were taken to the Cathedral part of the Mezquita (the church sits in the middle of the old Mezquita). There the guide told us to sit down on the beautiful handcrafted mahogany benches. She then proceeded to tell us about their origin. Since in Europe mahogany doesn't exist, it came from CUBA. Without any hesitation I said: "WHOA??! I'm taking this shit too..." and the whole group started laughing... Nerea just sighed and began to laughed... I guess I can't seem to control my rants.
I'm going to post some pictures of the Cathedral in a later post, so just watch out.
Peace (It's almost siesta time! lol)
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