Hola hola! Long time no write! The last two weeks have been relatively uneventful due to exams and the need to relax for an insane month of travel ahead of me, but I completely forgot I hadn’t updated on my school’s trip to Córdoba!
TCCSevilla organizes three class trips, and one of which is to Córdoba. It happened on Friday, so we were blessed with not only a three day weekend, but a trip to start it off. After a two hour bus ride, we filed off the bus to be greeted by a run-down 14th century water mill that’s home to a family of Siamese cats (one of which you can see peeping out from a crevice in the photo below).
A little further down the road, we came across a 2,000 year-old Roman bridge (on which later that day I would perform the Macarena dance with my roommate to the tune from a happy, accordion playing street musician).
We then made our way to the Mesquita-Catedral de Córdoba, an originally Muslim mesquite whose center is converted into a Catholic cathedral upon the reconquest of Spain. The religious and architectural fusions make for a stunning visit:
After our visit to the Mesquita-Catedral, we roamed the streets of Córdoba until we came to a place where could eat our bocadillos, made with love by our wonderful señoras.
And thus concludes our day trip to Córdoba! That was the main update, but here are some other fun things I was up to in between exams:
In other news, I also just completed the second school trip to Toledo these last two days, but this is more than enough for one post, so I will include the details in my next post. Hasta luego amigos!
Emma in Seville 