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11 October 2003
Madinat Al-Zahra Today we’re moving on from Cordoba to Granada but we’re taking an excursion out of town before making that move. We took breakfast at a café behind the Mezquita before walking down to the riverside to catch the bus tour to Madinat Al-Zahra. The journey was only about 7km and quick. This site […]
10 October 2003
Train to Cordoba Today we move from Sevilla to Cordoba. The two cities are linked by train and we hailed a taxi to take us to the station. Getting to the impressive-looking station around 1015, we checked the schedule to find that the next slow train would be after 1300 (priced at EUR7, taking 90 […]
9 October 2003
We slept in again, till around 0830. Rather than repeat yesterday’s breakfast at Plaza Alfalfa, we had some cereal in our room before going out for a morning cuppa. We continued towards the river and the bullring, Plaza de Toros. The bullring was huge, seating 14000 spectators. It even has its own operating theatre in […]
8 October 2003
Cathedral & Giralda We overslept, waking around 0800. Perhaps it was due to our room window opening into the courtyard which meant we had no direct sunlight. We had been relatively unaffected by jetlag so far, despite having flown from the opposite side of the globe. We walked to Plaza Alfalfa for a simple breakfast […]
7 October 2003
Above: Tower Bridge as we descend over London. Paris to London Today, we are bound for Sevilla in Spain, via London. After breakfast we took the metro to Opera and hopped on the Roissybus to Charles de Gaulle airport Terminal 1. It was much easier than the train! It may seem strange that we are […]
6 October 2003
More sightseeing It was a grey drizzly day and we started today’s exploration on foot, walking to Galeries Lafayette department store. We weren’t shopping but the view from the rooftop is supposed to be quite good. To my surprise the store was quite shabby in parts but very big with a very nice atrium. I […]
5 October 2003
Arc de Triomphe to Eiffel Tower Breakfast at the hotel was nice, consisting of rolls pastries with ham and cheeses. The coffee was nice and there was plenty of hot milk for café au lait. There wasn’t any fruit, but I think that’s because the French are more into their pastries first thing in the […]
4 October 2003
Killing time in London We slept till 0900 today and had a late breakfast at our budget London hotel today. We have a flight from London Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle at 1500 today, purchased at a very cheap price on British Airways. That means we have a few hours to kill before heading […]
3 October 2003
We did a bit of sightseeing in London today. Our first stop was St Paul’s cathedral which we tried to reach on the Circle Line. Getting on the tube heading in the wrong direction, the journey took forever. Once we got there, we realised that they charge GBP6 pp for entrance. It’s quite a new […]
2 October 2003
We woke at 0300 and with the aid of sleeping medication, we slept till 0800. That was a total of 13h30! Stuart Hotel’s continental breakfast was very good and we filled up before heading out. We took the tube to Richmond station where Kim’s parents picked us up, with Kim’s aunt Eileen in the car […]