Cordoba, Spain

The Mezquita

Inside Casa Andalus

On January 2, my first adventure of the year, I went with Ralph, Abby, and Ralph's mom, Elena, to Cordoba.  Cordoba was a quaint city that reminded me a lot of Sevilla, just smaller and less busy.  We spent most of the day on Sunday walking around… having the worst meal ever for lunch… but exploring  through the quiet cobblestone streets with picturesque patios and apartments.  In the evening we went tapas hopping.  I tried for the first time rabo de toro (bull's tail) and it was really good, tasted like pot roast, but it was so expensive! I love tapa hopping! The next morning we went to the Mezquita, which was right across from our hotel.  Everywhere around the Mezquita, or rather most of Cordoba, Spanish Christmas carols were playing.  EVERYWHERE.  In the streets, restaurants, bathrooms… there was no escape.  It was enough to make you go a little crazy!  Anyway, the Mezquita was really beautiful, but I was hoping for something a little more "mosque-y" in nature.  Mezquita means mosque in Spanish.  The inside architecture was that of a mosque, but all of the decorations were Catholic, since it had been converted.  We did some more walking around after the Mezquita and went to a little "museum" called Casa Andalus, which was an apartment/house that was decorated like it would have been in the past.  It was so beautiful! That was my favorite part of the whole trip! We took the train back at the end of the day.  Overall, Cordoba was very pretty, but a little too tranquilo for me.