what a waste of a dayfirst it starts rainingthen the 9.30 fast ferry doesnt leave till 1030 which is 1230 spain timeso i get to algeciras 2 so have to take the 3 pm bus to malagaget to the hostel at 6 so have to rush before it gets dark and things closeraining all daywhat a dump malaga isdont know why the british are so in love and buying holiday homesits a big industrial porteveryting in town is closed on a saturday nitewasting half an hour trying to check in on...

only one internet cafe in granada!so took the bus from cordobathere is a sadness as you leave cordobawe passed over the bridge so had the classic shot of the bridge overlooking the mosqueyou see mountaintop castles along the way and land is quite fertile considering the heatgranada is not what i expectedfirst impression, this is austriait is set in the mountain valley and has barouque arcitecturedoes not have a spanish feel at allnor does it have an islamic feel ...

so today i guess is eid <muslim holiday< so celebratingfirst visited the arab baths which are an excavation like a turkish hammam with stars in the roof... then took the half hour coach to madinat alzahara which is outside the city in the countrythis was built in the 10th century as the new administrative capital of the kingdom and had housed the king, prime minister and seat of government... it only lasted 70 years before a sucesstion crisis caused a confl...

so arrived in cordoba todaythe train from seville had this sports team that looked like rugby players got onall kneeling on their seats and shouting up and down the carriagewas like i was in a sports bar, thank god i got off at cordobaso they have a cordoba card for $50 which gives u free access to everythingi dont know why i didnt buy it online, i thought it would be easier at the tourist office in the train station.. when i get there she says they only sell it ...

so the train from madrid was 3 hours on the high speed trainif we had those 300km trains we could be in montreal in 2 hrs instead of 7 on Viathere were dark clouds and heavy rain all the way but luckily it cleared by the time we got to cordoba and remained clear to sevilledidnt really like madrid.. dont like big crowded citiesseems more grand than london coz i guess the spanish empire had gold while the british empire only had tea, coffee, sugar!so the symbolic c...