Cordoba

When I signed off last time I was talking about a early night! Guess it was not meant to be. So Pierre said we were to this brazilian bar to meet his neighbours whom he really wanted to meet for a long time. The atmosphere there was just so nice.The decor and live music.So there were 3 ppl who were roommates. And guess what. There was a Indian!!...So she was from New delhi. And was a design post grad student here. She was rather critical of the fact that I did not know Hindi . We had a very interesting chat about that. Thats a pic of me and Sonal. So as usual we got back only by about 12 or so. And after that had some admin work to do regarding tickets and the like. So slept later than planned.

And yes . That showed next morn. I was to wake by 8 for my 9 05pm train. As usual yours truly happily turned off the alarm and went back to sleep like how I do at coll(Now you know y I never make it to the morning classes). Anyway luckily Andres woke me by 8 30 . I rushed to the station and just made it on time. Heres a pic of the station. Really well organized all the stations are I thought. You have a single hall. From there you descend into the various platforms and so on. But I guess they charge for it. I paid 3.5 k INR for a short 400 km journey.

So yes by 11 pm I was at Cordoba. Went to Tourist info office. I was at Cordoba for a single reason. To see the Mezquita. So got directions and set off. On the way the usual beautiful gardens and the like. I just had to put a few pics of them , bear with me :).

I walked for about 30 mins. Some pain finding the place. Really small streets . and I dont know spanish. So somehow managed to get there. But i guess thats part of the fun in going to the place without knowing the language. So some pictures of the Mezquita follow. Basically its a mosque built about 1200 years ago. Which was conquered by Christians and converted to a Church . It was truly SPECTACULAR. And the pictures dont do justice. Some pictures follow.

Really spectacular it was...

This was the original islamic construction you can see in the background.

Then my favourite topic. On the way back to the station I went to a really cheap all you can eat Buffet. The only small issue was that there were so many varities of food. But there was no names/ labels/ nothing. So had a go at quite a few things without any clue as to what I was eating. I ate well. I hope tom goes well ;-)!!..

Am posting this as I sit in the Seville Hostel . Too lazy to post about what i did in Seville today. Will finish the parts tom in Seville and will post... tata... Am having a blast