The City of Children

If Granada is one of the best university cities, I will say that Cordoba is one of the best cities for pedofiles. Seriously, there are so many middle school kids roaming the streets. I do not get it. All day yesterday Paula and I walked around Cordoba visiting various touristic spots and hanging out like true Spaniards in the plazas people watching. It was an INCREDIBLE day of sun. I think I actually got a little brown...for a Norwegian.

We will return to Cordoba at some point though because we found out we failed on our questing. We thought we had seen the Mezquita which is a mosque that contains a Catholic church inside of it, very very famous, but we did not realize we had to enter. We looked at the outside and took some pictures, but we never went in. We missed out on the biggest tourist site in the city...waaam waaaaaaaa!

Not only did we miss out on that though, we missed out on several other places too. Fail. Anyway, we will go back and take Vittoria with us next time because my flat mate's brother invited us back. He and his family were so incredibly nice! They tried to send us in the right touristy directions and we just were not savvy enough to figure them out.

Another place we went was the Museum of Archeology which was incredible. Beneath this museum they discovered the ruins of a Roman theater. There were still steps intact. It was so cool to imagine the whole thing standing at one time. Over the years new things had been built on top of it, but at one time it was such an incredible piece of architecture that the whole city was basically built around it. They had immense underground piping to draw the water away from the city and this theater that would then flow into the river. BAMFS those Romans were!

Also, all of the pigeons were white. In the whole city I hardly saw a grey or brown flying rat. Just doves. It was rather nice...although I suspect it was some strange city improvement project that went on behind public eyes.

Blessing: Awesome trip with Paula (a really great travel buddy), and the fact that we can RETURN!