Al 'On-The-Move' (17)

Today was another sleep-in.  It's hard work, travelling.  I swear!

Made the most of the hotel restaurant, with a buffet brekky of cereal, eggs, chorizo, jamón and tostadas.  Yum.  Could probably have survived on that much food the whole day.

Buffet breakfast in the hotel in Sevilla.

Wandered to the bus stop and did another circuit.  We had intended to get off somewhere and have a look around, preferably Triana (apparently named after the Roman Emperor Trajan, who was born nearby, and is famed for producing the tiles that are all around Sevilla).  However, there were no stops in appropriate places, and no metro stations near the stops, so we just cruised around the whole circuit again.

Basílica La Macarena, as seen from the bus, Sevilla.

After this circuit, we were ready to walk a bit more, so strolled up the riverside to a café.

Beside the Guadalquivir, Sevilla.

Then, there was nothing else for it but to mission it across town to the hotel, and grab a taxi to the train station.  Before we knew it, we were off to Córdoba!

When we arrived, we got straight back into a taxi to head to our hotel.  When I told the driver we were from New Zealand, his reaction was more or less: Jo-er, ¡qué lejos! (Shit, that's far away!)

Once settled in at the hotel, we went for a wander down to and across the Roman Bridge for a great evening view of the beautiful Córdoba.

Roman Bridge, Córdoba

It was a bit difficult to tear ourselves away from such a good view, but our tummies were grumbling.  So, we wandered through the maze of central Córdoba's streets in search of something to satisfy us.  This was hard work, as we were hungry too early for Spain!  No-one was doing warm tapas before 8 or 8.30pm.  Fortunately, after walking enough to deserve it, we found a nice tapas menu for about 8€50 per person in a welcoming bar called La Abacería: Casa de la tapa Córdobesa.  We even tried some salmorejo (kind of cold tomato soup), and there's no better place to do that than in Córdoba!

Salmorejo: traditional soup of Córdoba.

The final activities of the night were a spot of shopping in some of Córdoba's many boutiques, and heading home to liquidate some of the limoncello which we'd bought, and gobble down some cake!