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I'm slightly angry at myself.

Today we took a day trip to Córdoba, a city east and slightly north of Sevilla (if you can make it out on the map, it's in the yellow region, the red dot right above the last "a" in Andalucía), to visit La Mezquita, an ancient, huge, and splendorous Moorish mosque that was built and added upon during the peak of the Moorish occupation of Spain.  The Mezquita is particularly known for its arches, so if you've ever seen a picture like the one directly below, then you've seen a picture of it.

We took a bus there (it was only 2 hours away), leaving at 8,30 in the morning (...I know).  And it was cold.  And before I get my head chopped off by all the people in North Carolina reading this, let me just say: we've gotten accustomed to living at 65 degrees F every day, so going back down to a wind chill of significantly less than that was shocking and not welcome.  And it was just as cold in Córdoba, probably due to the higher elevation and, thus, colder winds.  My señora was not kidding when she told me to put on a coat this morning.

I'm getting off track.  The main reason I'm angry at myself is that, in the haste to get out of the house and down to the hotel by 8,15, I forgot my camera.  (URGH.)  So alas, I have no pictures of the beautiful city of Córdoba, or La Mezquita, or the famous arches of the latter.

On the other hand, it was still amazing.  We had some time to ourselves after the visit to La Mezquita and later the Synagogue of Malmónides, so we got to explore a little bit of the city.  Not too much, but a little bit.  And it was still just as strange and foreign as Sevilla was at first, but in a way, I felt more fully accustomed to it.  I suppose that's a good thing?