We head off today for Cordoba and stop along the way at Carmona. Beautiful Roman town just outside of Seville. We visit the old fortress and see the city from above. Another place with tiny streets and houses opening onto them. Lots of churches as well. We also visited the Necropolis, a burial site from Roman times. At the site we are directed where to park by an attendant. We pay but we both believe that this guy is an enterprising entrepeneur who has bought a uniform and on his computer has printed out his parking tickets and that no parking fees actually apply!!
We decide to continue on to Cordoba. I have directions to the hotel in my hot hand and we drive into the city and think we have found where the hotel is.
We ask directions and yes, we are close so we park the car in a main street and walk to Hotel Plateros. There is parking across the street but gees, the lanes are very narrow — I keep thinking about how lucky we thought we were to get an upgrade to a large Citroen! Howard insists that he park the car so we venture into the narrow lane and have to fold the side mirrors in so as not to hit the buildings.
It was pretty harrowing but he did it!! We get the car parked and settle into the hotel. It is very small, about years old and is run by Antonio and his family. There is a restaurant and bar but it all closes at siesta time which can be a bit of a pain.
Cordoba is very quite but then again it is a Sunday. We both felt it was a bit eerie because it was so quiet. However we take a walk and find a square which is full of people so we stop to have a drink. We also found Hollywood Plato which is a gay bar near the plaza and had a beer. We went back to the hotel and bought a bottle of wine which we took with us to drink down by the river. Howard found the river to be very smelly. Later we went out for a tapa dinner and had boar jowl, ox tail, prawns, squid, seafood salad and a few others.
