I first want to apologize for not having posted my photos from Madrid on my Shutterfly page (http://www.AndreasOdyssey.shutterfly.com) as I said in my last post - they are now up along with my pics from Cordoba.
I am in the southern Spanish state of Andalucia, hanging out in the common room of the backpackers inn in Granada. On Thursday, I had an eventful day getting to Cordoba from Madrid... It was raining, I had to wait for an hour (with my backpack on my back) to make an obligatory train reservation, and then when I arrived in Cordoba, I had to find lodging because I had not made reservations anywhere. Luckily, I was able to get one night in the youth hostel, where I met a cool German girl named Kati. Kati and I went together to Cordoba's main tourist attraction, the Mezquita, on Friday morning, and after walking around Cordoba in the pouring rain for several hours, decided to take a bus to Granada (since we didn't have lodging for the night in Cordoba anyway). We found a very basic pension in Granada for Friday night and went first thing Saturday morning to get beds at Oasis, one of Granada's cool backpacker's inns, where we have been ever since.
Both Cordoba and Granada are beautiful cities of approximately 300,000. Andalucia was "the stronghold of Muslims in Spain for nearly eight centuries," so the towns here are "peppered with Moorish reminders" (Lonely Planet). Cordoba has a beautiful old town with narrow cobblestone streets, and Granada's similar old moorish quarter is actually where we are staying. We spent most of yesterday (Sunday) at the Alhambra, a huge Islamic fortress, palace and series of gardens that tower over Granada, and then capped off the evening with a tapas tour with a group from Oasis (in Granada, you get a free tapa with purchase of a drink in most tapas bars).
I believe I am going to head out tomorrow; I just haven't decided to where yet.
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