Córdoba
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Córdoba was a wonderful change of pace from other Andalusian towns.
Large streets, parks, water, greenery, great for walking. Almost all areas without hoards of tourists, replaced instead by Spanish families.
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Pleasing mix of eras of architecture.
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I haven’t figured out how exactly the siesta is followed in different places in Spain. But many streets really were pretty dead mid-afternoon.
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Completely accidentally, we came during the May festival.
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Courtyards were decorated and on display. Huge lines! We didn’t go in them, but we visited some famous ones setup as a museum.
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They had an unbelievably gorgeous, quite new contemporary art museum across the river. Here’s a corner of it.
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Tapas, The Ultimate Sampling Mechanism
I haven’t been posting pictures of food. Here’s a couple. Tapas have been an amazing way to try as many flavors as possible. With Spanish prices, and split between two people, you can really try a lot without breaking the bank.
Left to right: variation on patatas bravas where a hollowed out column is filled with three different sauces; salmorejo, a cold, tomato-y soup; berenjenas con miel, fried eggplants with a sweet balsamic and honey; homemade croquettes, full of what tasted like a cheese, potato, ham mixture.
Ox tail. Edible with fork.