We took a three hour bus ride to the quaint, world heritage listed town of Cordova on our way to Granada.
Cordova is world heritage listed because it contains a Roman Bridge (very over rated!) and the Mezquite (which deserves the world heritage listing). The Mezquite is an amazing Catholic cathedral which still contains vast Muslim structures (from when the Moors had occupied Spain). The numerous red and white striped arches seem to go on forever. Words can not do it justice, so check out the photos Damo took!
After the Mezquite we had lunch at an organic sandwich bar (getting a bit tired off all the tapas and bread). This was a big mistake (confirms Mick's opinion that organic is never better than scientifically enhanced food), Mick's travellers belly returned. So for the next hour Mick got to visit most of the public toilets in Cordova. What was most concerning was that we had a 4 hour bus ride to catch, and some of the buses we had caught did not have toilets. Our tour guide told us not to worry, if there was no toilet on the bus, the bus driver would pull over on the side of the highway if necessary. The thought of Mick having to squat on the side of a road with a whole bus waiting for him to finish was terrifying to him. Mick took some of his trusty Lomotil tablets to try to stop the onslaught, but being the true risk manager that he is, he started some contingency planning. Thankfully the tablets worked and there was a toilet on the bus, crisis averted!
We arrived in Granada (with underpants intact) and headed straight to a tapas bar. Granada has as bizarre custom where you get free tapas when you order a drink. Mick had been looking forward to this free food, but was disheartened when he quickly realised that free tapas does not include dry bread, but rather oily (yet delicious) foods.
After dinner we hiked up to the top of the city to a look out to see the Alhambra all done up in lights, it was spectacular. We got to go inside it the following day and it was truly an amazing building with amazing gardens to wander through. The rest of the day was spent wandering the city before we met up with the group to go back to the look out to see the sun setting over the Alhambra. On the way to the lookout we stopped by an olive and dried fruit shop where it seemed every second person in our group bought a tub of olives. So a shitload of olives needed to be eaten while we waited for the sun to set. Even though we tried the were still quite a few olives thrown out when left.
We then made our way to dinner for more free tapas (and Mick paid for bread and water/lemonade). For dessert Damo and 2 others from our tour shared churros and chocolate, they over ordered and had to leave some behind (which was also an indication of the quality).
We then had an early night as we had an early start the next day.
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