okay so we got up took a cab to the train station i'm too lazy to walk 30 minutes with luggage and
we made our way uh to cordova on the high speed train which i really don't think it
was a high speed train but anyway an hour and a half to two hours later we made it this video is
going to show a tour of our airbnb as well as the alcazar in cordoba in a later video we'll
show some other sites so stay tuned for those but from here let's take a tour of the airbnb
so here we are walking in the seville train station catching our first high-speed train
this one yeah the inside of the train car looks uh pretty good that looks
like cotton fields which i did not expect to see outside of mississippi
i think this is us coming into cordova but i'm not 100 sure okay we think this is actually
cordova the outskirts of cordova rather than instead of the last little town i showed you
hey y'all we just made it to cordoba and before we mess up our airbnb we thought we'd take you
on a tour so as you walk in we have a regulation bathroom we do actually have a pretty big shower
it's pretty deep but you have to walk in all the way to turn it on that's a small pet peeve
but not too big toilet hey check that out pink toilet paper haven't seen that since like the 70s
anywho as we come this way we have a dining table and for the win we have two separate seating areas
i was tired of sitting beside garrett i like to stretch out when i watch tv so he can sit over
here in these little white chairs our airbnb host was really cool she left us some fruit that we can
eat while we're here we're only here for four days so we will definitely use that and she also left
us breads and jams and muffins which is pretty cool and we have pocket doors that lead into the
bedroom area and there's a bed right here but it's also kind of odd in that if you pan around
in this one bedroom there are two double beds and i guess that's for a family type situation
definitely not two couples that could be weird but we're gonna stay
down in this two double bed area so that whoever is asleep is farther away from the tv
which will be garrett not me because i'm the night owl and that's our airbnb tour
so once we got settled into our airbnb in cordoba i was thrilled it was the quietest
place we had been so far and everything was going well until about 11 30 one night i hear the sound
of drums beating and i'm like what the heck is that so i look out the window and what do i see
but a parade at 11 30 at night it was pretty comical garrett was in bed he wouldn't get up
to look out so i videoed the procession going by our window it was pretty cool check it out
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here we are walking across the roman bridge it's a pedestrian bridge and we are headed to the alcazar
pretty view overcast today so that makes the walk pretty nice
at one end of the roman bridge actually on the side that we're staying on
is the kalahora tower we're going to go up there later there's a museum in there right
now that we're also going to visit i'll show both of those later
walking to the alcazar and along our way there's an old mill that obviously is not
used but it's still pretty cool to see something this old in the middle of the city this is the
mosaic room in the alcazar in cordoba and the walls are made of these little all these mosaics
with little teeny tiny pebbles i'm not sure the camera's picking up the detail but this room is
very large it looks like it would have been used for like a theater i'll have to do some research
to check but it has cool arches the ceilings are phenomenal i have a fascination with ceilings
and the mosaics are very intricate i'll try to get closer to show the detail
it has to be millions of little teeny tiny pebbles
here's a passageway lined with pictures and it leads out to a courtyard area
we're not going out there yet but it looks pretty cool
we finally found a spot without other people in front of us which is
pleasant doesn't that doesn't sound nice but
there's not even that many tours here but we keep getting stuck and we can't take pictures
now that's a view right there two fountains one's on which is just a little uh
trickle but it sounds very pretty out here along with the birds another view of the fountain
and then we get to go up into an upper garden and i think that's where garrett went he abandoned me
to go take pictures but that's okay i went to try to pet cat
here's a little fountain area it's about a foot and a half beats
lined with a bunch of purple cone head flowers that would be pretty if they were in bloom
and there's more flowers and there's a bunch of roman columns that i'm assuming were excavated
on site here's the reverse view of the nice little pool looking back to the alphabar
some statues and garrett hey garrett how are you
now this is beautiful with all of these i don't know what kind of plants these
are purple plants lining these two retention pools i wish i was here at night to see that
lit up maybe we'll try to come back if we have time but the flowers here are gorgeous
the water feature but this one has a very intricate mosaic work and it has
dragons and fish and dolphins and i guess that is a horse oh god what are those called
yeah a horse fish i can't think of the name of it
okay so garrett told me they're called sea horses
because i could not think of the but for a horse fish a horse fish and there is a
what is half man half horse i can't think of that either there's one of those
okay it is a centaur garrett had to tell me because i can't remember the names of things today
but this is the water feature with dalton centaurs tuna seahorses and dragons and there's
garrett taking it easy not taking pictures not saying anything not even smiling smile
so hopefully you like this video of cordoba we enjoyed our time there there will be a second
cordova video coming up with the mosquito in the video along with a couple of other things don't
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oh look at the little kitten and none of the cats let me pet them they run away