Cordoba

Yesterday we took the bus to Bilbao and visited the Guggenheim Museum there before getting on a plane to the southern coast of Spain.



We almost didn´t go to Bilbao early since I really wanted to see San Sebastian and I´m not really a museum hopper. But the actual Guggenheim building by Frank Gehry in Bilbao seemed like a pretty unique experience, and now we´re so glad we went. It´s really an amazing structure. Oh yeah, and there was some cool art there too. I´m not a huge surrealism fan, which was the big exhibit that was open, but it was interesting nonetheless.




We arrived in Malaga around 21:30 and picked up a rental car. Our flight was delayed and the line for cars took forever and we had an hour and a half drive ahead of us to get to our place in Cordoba. I´d started feeling sick yesterday, and staying up late hasn´t helped. Usually I´m such a baby when I´m ¨sick.¨ The slightest sniffle has me canceling all of my appointments, downing some Nyquil with orange juice and heading straight to bed.

That wasn´t possible, and sleeping in wasn´t an option either. We finally got to our room around 1 am, and we had to be up in time to get to the Mezquita while it was still free (they start charging admission at 10 am). We got up around 8, packed up, had a leisurely breakfast and walked the two blocks to the Mezquita, arriving around 9:15.

And today they are having a funeral that starts at 9:15, so it closed about 10 minutes before we got there. It´ll open again at 11, but it will be 10 euros each. In the meantime, everything else is closed because it´s a Monday, and the Mezquita was the only thing we were planning on seeing here (besides wandering the Jewish Quarter, which we´ve basically done). I was about five seconds from curling up on a park bench and whimpering, but then we decided to do the Internet cafe.

If I can´t sleep, at least I can surf the web and blog. In Spain. Sad, I know.

This afternoon we´re driving to Sevilla, where we´ll be for two days. Hopefully my plague clears up quickly.