Cordoba

Another day this weekend and another day-trip! This time we went to Cordoba, which is a town about 2 hours away from Sevilla. We went to what was once a mosque that was turned into a cathedral, as most were in Spain when the Christians took back Andalusia, Southern Spain from the Moors. In the tenth century, it is said that 500,000 people lived there under the Caliphate of Cordoba, the king of Andalusia and Northern Africa. This was, at the time, the most populated city in the world. It was interesting because we went to a mosque/cathedral and a synagogue in the same day. Then we went to the Alcazar, or king's palace, which was beautiful. After that, we had a couple of hours to do whatever we wanted and of course, as American as we could be, we ate a Burger King lol. It was a great trip until the drive back. We had two buses and the over bus broke down, so our driver had to try to help fix it. They got it started but did not make it very far before stopping again. My bus then had to go backtrack to try and find a belt that fell off of the other bus, and we actually found it. It did not work, however and they, for some reason, ordered another bus from Sevilla when we were 1.5 hours away. We did finally get home, just 4 hours later than we were supposed to.