SEVILLA AND CORDOBA WEEKEND!!!

Hellloooooooo!!!

So back again from many, many Spain adventures!!!

Lets begin:

Sevilla and Cordoba was last weekend with my study abroad program. They charted a private bus for the 20 of us and we drove down on Friday morning, six hours to Cordoba, greeted by the pouring rain... kind of a bummer, but whatever. We had a great lunch, checked into the hotel, and toured around the old city which used to be the capital of the western Moorish empire when the Muslims first got to Spain, later to be replaced by Sevilla, and then by Granada. Evidence of this was “La Mezquita”. A huge beautiful former Muslim mosque that was literally amazing inside and also really interesting because once the Christians reconcurred Spain, they decided to you know just build their grand cathedral INSIDE the mosque. So its basically this massive Muslim place of worship with a huge church inside of it. The strangest thing ever. Later that night our program set us up with some spanish students from Cordoba, so me and four other girls went out to a Hooka bar with them and then afterwards we went to another flamenco showwwwwww. another oneeeee. this one was actually pretty good seeing as Andalucia is the capital of all things flamenco so I enjoyed it!!

The next day was Sevilllaaaa maravillaaaaaa and we were sooo lucky to have SUN in the morning!!! The drive from Cordoba was only about an hour and we arrived to a thriving, lively, sunny city with everyone out and about. It was soooo pretty and I can see how Sevilla is the most popular place in Spain for students to study abroad. Its a small city, nothing compared to the enormity of Madrid, and seems small enough to feel like you could get to know the place really well. However wonderful it was though, I for sure got home-sick for Madrid!!! Anyways, we took a tour of the Alcazar and the surrounding gardens which was all beautiful and nice to see some green for once haha. Then our program director who is from Sevilla took us to this really authentic restaurant for lunch- so good. Some of the best food I have had since I got to Spain. I was full for atleast 3 days afterwards. Thennnnnnn we got back on the bus and they surprised us by taking us KAYACKINGGGG on the river in Sevilla!!!! Needless to say I was excited, yet the others not so much. I partnered up with Tevia, the diva that she is, and we had quite an eventful two hours fighting over who could paddle with the best rhythm and Tevia trying to avoid getting wet at all costs (impossible). The last 200 yards or so of our trip it starting POURING rain. The whole situation was hilarious and I couldn’t stop laughing as we all got soaked while trying to furiously paddle back to the dock... which was some how sinking into the river... We all ran back to the bus in our wet clothes and headed back to the hotel to somehow dry off. Then for the night timeeeeeeee- SO, when we were walking around Sevilla all day I was looking at all the signs on the building walls and one caught my eye and I stopped in my tracks. Hernan Cattaneoooooooo, the famous Argentinean DJ who I saw my very first night after I landed in PERU exactly 3 years ago, was going to be playing in Sevilla that nighttt!!! Ever since that night in Peru I have been trying unsuccessfully to see him again but he is always touring abroad so I have never had the chance. Well there he was in SEVILLAAA- another sign of my life full circle. I convinced Tevia to go with me after much pleading. It would have been awful if I didn’t go. So after a bit of pre-gaming with a spanish bachelor party we stumbled upon, we took a taxi to some club in Sevilla at 3 in the morning to see Hernannnn Cattaneooooo. I was absolutely dying of excitement and seeing him brought back sooo many memories. Dancing in a beach side club an hour south of Lima with a Swedish guy that I met in the terminal in Houston.. and I was only 17. Succccessss for lifeeeee!!! Anyways, it was basically a full blown rave and we danced danced danced until 6:30 in the morning and got back to the hotel as they were setting up the continental breakfast. Luckily that next day it was pouring rain, so all our tours got cancelled and we were able to just get a bus tour and then drive back to Madrid. After one hour of sleep in the hotel, Tevia and I passsedddd out on the way home.

Anywayssss, I’d say it was a successful weekend on the whole. I learned a lot about Spanish history, saw some beautiful architecture, ate good food, went kayacking, and saw Hernan Cattaneo. wahoooooooooo!!! More to come soon about MALLORCAAA!