So we said farewell to the family (& Nerja) and made the 211KM journey to Cordoba stopping to make some lunch in The Van on the way (as we were a little hungover…)
We WERE aiming for this “Autocaravanas De Cordoba” place – which is basically like a French aire (i.e. has water & electricity but usually you’re pretty rammed in); however on the way I read some reviews & it was €23 for 24 hours PLUS €2 for 100 litres of water PLUS €2 per hour for electricity – WHICH IS SIMPLY ABYSMAL – most proper camp sites don’t charge anything like that much INCLUDING water & electricity – so we decided to go elsewhere… (Except NOT a proper camp site as there weren’t any close enough to the city…)
Dave has this APP (!!!) on his phone called Park4Night & we found this street outside a park which was pretty close to the sights then we got the bikes out & headed off to town – a couple of kms away…
Cordoba is famous for it’s CATHOLIC cathedral which is inside what was originally a MOSQUE… We’d decided NOT to do the tour that day as it was late in the day but got a snap of me sat outside on the wall with the Arabic door behind me – an unusual backdrop for a Catholic place of worship…
We then went to the “Roman Bridge” (which was the only way to cross Cordoba for centuries) and where there were 3 different buskers – a (very loud) accordion player and 2 guitarists playing Spanish music… Also – in the middle of the bridge – one of the many statues of Archangel San Rafael who is the “Guardian of Cordoba”…
We took a photie of the “Bridge Gate” at the end of the bridge and then ended up at a bar – & had a couple of drinks – adjacent to the river because it is the equivalent of their “esplanade” and the evening sun lasts the longest there…
BUT when we got back, Dave decided that we WOULD go to the €23 for 24 hours place as we would feel safer (and I have to be honest – when we “wild-camp” I always expect some thugs to bang on the door in the middle of night and rob us 😱 not that they ever do !!!)
And that was fine but do you know what ? We watched half of a film then settled down to go to sleep and there was 🎵 MUSIC 🎵 !!! It was like a free concert in the park – and if we weren’t so hungover from 12 nights in Nerja with no rest from alcohol – I’m SURE that we would have gone along & joined in – it was really good music !!!
