FUN-travel: Toledo to Cordoba to Sevilla, Spain

August 21, 2012 by · Comments Off on FUN-travel: Toledo to Cordoba to Sevilla, Spain 

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.