good morning and welcome to another day in beautiful sunny Spain
and as you can see we're in the car we're packed up ready to go we're leaving
Seville today and we're driving to Cordoba
to see the church mosque staying there overnight
want to call at the supermarket first
and then we have to make our way out of Seville to the correct road so
wish me luck I have no idea where I'm going
go down to the end of the road, turn right and I'm not taking the main road because I'm actually
staying a little bit out of Cordoba for the accommodation so I'm gonna be taking
the backroads so let's go and have a look at a little bit of Andalusia
Good afternoon
and made it to Cordoba safe for drove in the car an hour and
10 minutes from Sevilla nice easy took the back roads very quiet easy
beautiful day again actually really hot 33 my B&B is actually outside of town so
I dropped off my gear at the B&B in the next village along which I'll show you
later now I'm back in Cordoba trying to find
the cathedral mosque which has gotta be right here...somewhere...
Cordoba! Cordoba is about an hour and 10 minutes drive from Sevilla and is a
smallish town village famous for quite a few things amazing history from Roman
from Moorish to Christian to well as many significant things but two of the
things I'm hopefully going to show you one is obviously wandering the streets
as usual amazing little streets very small cobbled streets hardly any traffic
and lots of tavernas tapas bars places a snack and eat and
ice-cream which is exceptionally good wandering around the town in the middle of the old
town is probably the most amazing feature of the place which is a
I can't remember which came first, I think the mosque came first
huge mosque was built there and when the Christians came and took over they
didn't demolish the mosque they built a cathedral in the middle of the mosque so
it's now a mosque Cathedral quite amazing let me show you that the other
thing I'm hopefully going to go and see this evening is the Roman bridge an old
Roman bridge that connects one side of the city to the other so let's take you
around and see those sights
if I can find my way out of here
not that I'm lost, just not exactly sure where I am
well after being distracted by ice-cream parlors random streets beautiful streets
flowers shops and all sorts of other things I eventually found it's right in
the middle of town it's actually very easy to find as long as you don't get distracted the
mosque church or the mosqu Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba as it's called now you can
wander into this part this is the garden in the middle that cathedral mosque is
on the right there that's the gardens are free to go and wander round these parts
there's a water fountain very boodle beautiful on a hot day like it is today
really nice to chill in these gardens for a little better and sit by the pool
people were suffering from the heat
then you can get your ticket now I was lucky
I got the ticket already online so you could jump the queues and then the busy
seasons it's well worth doing is its gets queued now that we've got a ticket you
can go for a certain time and get waved in you avoid the queue so I give that thing
with 8 euros now that was just a mosque it didn't include the bell tower which
is an extra 2 euros which wasn't open when I was there unfortunately and you can do
a night visit which I didn't have time to but let me take you inside and show you
wow that truly is an amazing place and now once again to wend my way through
the streets and now we're gonna enjoy the evening light and go down and see
the old Roman bridge I told you this place was a mishmash of so many
different timelines and and the history but let's go down and have a look at the
bridge and enjoy the sunset
a beautiful evening hey?
in the town of Cordoba
tiny sliver of a moon first
star is up
sky still blue
the lights are on in the city looking beautiful
temperatures pleasant, a little cool breeze which
hopefully isn't messing with my sound too much
but still warm enough for
shorts and t-shirt
and it's been a beautiful day in Cordoba well worth a
visit you can do it on a day trip from Seville, Sevilla but you will miss this
evening so I recommend coming and overnight which is what I'm doing now
I'm not staying in Cordoba because it's quite expensive and I've got a car so I can
come in and out staying in a town which I neglected to find the name of I know
it's like that way so I'm gonna get something to eat in the town find the car
which I'm parked somewhere as well gonna cost me up five or six Euros in parking
fees as well then find my shopping I still haven't found a supermarket it's like half
pest ten would you believe gotta give my lunch food sorted out good your way
earlier and find my way home tonight because tomorrow I'm gonna move on to
the next place now come on let's show you a bit of Granada lit up at night
not Granada that's what I'm going to oh let's do you a bit off Cordoba lit up at
night moon is so beautiful
okay here's the carpark
good news I found the carpark
bad news
now gotta pay the bill
oh and not get run over
okay start going in the pedestrian entrance good idea
oh my goodness, ten Euros!
thirty! oh my goodness
Oh my
hey, take my money, ten euros
Good news it likes that okay
Wow my parking, oooth
you see that why I normally take the bus into these places parking for five hours
cost me 10 euros 30, ouch
anyway let's go find my village
hello little car how we doing? Good news the car's still here
and do I have the car keys?
I do, okay
let's get going
okay, good news, found my way home to my sleepy little village
and it really is a sleepy little village
struggled to get a parking spot
and this is what it's like
at night here
brilliant isn't it?
and Iknow you can't see it but
there's a castle overlooking us here
not I've got to stealthily get into my accommodation
without waking anybody up
okay, first of all the front door
got the key stuck in the door
I can't believe that, there we go
so much for the stealthy entry
I'm in
now I wonder if I've too late for tea or coffee or snacks?
oh no let's try again
okay got the right key
can anybody see anything?
trying to be so quiet here
oh, I'm in
good news, I'm in
where's the light?
and we're in, there we go
welcome home
goodnight, see you tomorrow