Hello!
We love Cordoba! Its kinda like Cleveland where one must endure hardships such as snowstorms (Mom, Dad, Ariel), extra-long plane rides (Tsedeye and Sonia), car accidents (Ann, Jer, Ariel) to arrive to the location. After 25 hours of traveling on Sunday to Monday we arrived here. Mat and I somehow got a private sleeping compartment on the all night train ride from France to Madird, Spain. I felt really guilty especially because we were next to comparments that had 6 people in it cramped and grumpy.
The train stopped almost every 10 minutes and waited at the station for about 20 minutes per stop. I think the conductor wanted to make sure that we arrived in the morning so everyone got enough sleep.
Seriously though, each time I woke up (which was several times during the night) we were just sitting at some station not moving. It was really quite funny, but we got here somehow.
Cordoba is an amazing city, full of history. This place was the most progressive of societies where the lead scholars of the 3 Abrahamic Religions preached tolerance, harmony between religion and science, and harmony with living together in close quarters. Tomorrow we are going inside the Mezquita, a Mosque, located in the Jewish Quarter, and used in the latter years as a church. Interesting huh?
Tonight we have been hanging out with some people from Austria talking about comics books and drinking fanta. Tomorrow we head to Granada to stay at a hostel with a swimming pool (yipppeee!) and to check out the Alambra and the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Mat and I have been surviving the Spainish heat by stopping to drink Lemon Fanta almost every hour. Most of the food has meat in it but we have gotten by eating lots of olives and bread. The siesta here is about 4:00 and understandably because its the hottest part of the day, but its really confusing for me to figure out whats open and whats not because every place is on a different siesta schedule. The mornings are cool and around 11 am it starts getting really hot until about 10 pm. I wonder how that seems to happen. But its certainly my kind of weather, nice dry heat.
Much love to everyone.
Julie
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