Spain is a goldmine, every where you turn, there's another ancient beautiful artifact or building. There's no way I could take a bad picture here, even the sky looks more blue. Every city as once a super power, as long ago, Spain ruled the world. Now, just a fraction of it's formal size, it's easy to imagine the power this country once had, after all, even today 1/5 of the world speaks Spanish.
On Wednesday, we took a surprise field trip to Cordoba, an Iberian and Roman city in ancient times, was the most populous city in the world in the 10th century, and the intellectual center of Europe. In case you were wondering. We took a huge awesome bus, which you'll see if you scroll down, and elft around 7am, before sunrise. As always, there were no field-trip forms, or fees, or parental chaperons, we simply left. why is that such a difficult concept for so many schools?
Even the bus ride was beautiful... Spanish churches, and olive tree farms framed by mountains in the distance...
Paloma, Laura, Bea and Vicki
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| The olive trees and rolling hills.... |
The Bus! "Yellow school buses" don't exist here, we travel in style, and comfort. This bus had curtains, and reclining chairs. I think our Greene school bus has an emergency exit.
A random bull. Why not? It's Spain, in case you forgot.
As soon as we got there, I kinda went crazy with my camera, even the cobblestone path we were walking on caught my eye, in total I took 273 pictures.
The first step is acceptance.
We arrived at the Cathedral, and formal Mosque of Cordoba, which was unbelievably ridiculously beautiful.
(the order of the pics is screwed up, this is a lamp in a gift shop)
Translation: The Synagogue. (just in case you were wondering)
A special mask store for La Carnival.
Oh, you know, random columns in the middle of the city. I forgot this was an anciant roman city some 1,000 years ago.
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