FUN-travel: Toledo to Cordoba to Sevilla, Spain
August 21, 2012 by Susan Clarke
Trip Day 38 – Friday, August 17 – Toledo to Cordoba to Sevilla, Spain
What I LIKE
Inside La Mezquita
- Paradores in Spain have been very consistent – all 4 or 5 ****
- staff in Toledo is the most personable & helpful
- our Mercedes has 2, 12 volt plugs so we can use the Garmin & play the IPod!
- 9:45 depart for Cordoba
- countryside is rolling hills with olive orchards in every direction as far as the eye can see
- 1:30 arrive Cordoba
- made good time
- find free parking
- La Mezquita – named as a Wonder of the World but didn’t make the top 21 – massive remarkably well-preserved 10th-century mosque – now with a 16th-century church rising form the middle – once the center of Western Islam & heart of a cultural capital that rivaled Bagdad & Istanbul – a definite wonder of the medieval world !
- 2:30 – depart for Sevilla
- 4:00 – arrive
- made good time
- no tolls at all today
- wonderful man @ bar on teeny, tiny, road asks us where we are going – jumps on his bike and directs us to our hotel
- Casa 1800 is in the heart of the Old Town
- able to drive & find parking garage
La Mezquita
- 5:00 Beer stop
- 8:30 dinner @ La Burra – locals favorite – order hamburger, seared ahi, chicken – nice red wine only $18 Euro
- cafe patrons spilling into the streets
- Casa 1800 is in the heart of everything!
What I DIDN”T LIKE
- drive to Cordoba takes 4 hrs
- then Sevilla is another 2 hrs
- teeny, tiny, twisty, narrow, cobblestone streets on the Old Town
- parking costs $20 Euro a day in Sevilla
- La Burra food just so-so
- 5:00 Beer stop has no free tapas
FF (FUN-fact) – There are an abundance of service areas on Spain’s major roads that have gas and food.