Italica, cordoba, cadiz, sevilla... etc

Okay, so we went to Italica, which was basically a bunch of Roman ruins. It was cold and rainy. Here is a house with a mosaic in it. Italica was vaguely interesting, would have been more interested if I was distracted by trying to point my umbrella in the direction the wind was pushing the rain.
We ended up skipping the beach because of the bad weather. I did get to see Mama mia in Spanish that afternoon though, which was good. It was all dubbed except for the singing.

On this last saturday we went to Cordoba for the day with the program. On the way I saw this giant bull in the desert we drove through on the bus (its not real).

Cordoba was nice. The point of going there was to see the mosque/cathedral there, but before and after we got to wander around in the small alleys and squares. You can see the cathedral through the alley in this picture.
I say cathedral/mosque because originally it was a mosque then the Christians conquered and built on top of part of it their own cathedral. However, alot of the original mosque is still standing. In the patio there was a 600 year old tree and a fountain which supposedly will grant girls that drink from it a boyfriend. Here is my friend Kerry drinking from the "novio fountain".

Here is the patio, 600 year old tree, and random guy sitting next to it:
The inside of the mosque was pretty interesting. It was full of candy cane striped arches.
After the tour of the mosque, our teacher told us some traditional Cordoba foods such as bulls tail. He also told us about some tapas to try and a wine that were Cordoban. We went to a restaurant and ordered the traditional Cordoba wine and gazpacho. The gazpacho was good, but the wine was disgustingly viscous and sweet, so I didn't drink mine. We came back to Sevilla that evening and bought bus tickets to go to Cadiz the next day.
We left at 9 am to go to Cadiz on Sunday and got there around 10:30 and there were hardly any people on the beach. By 11 the beach was completely full with thousands of people. We soon found out that Sunday was actually the air festival in Cadiz, which explains the number of people. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so I don't have pictures, but the air show was pretty cool. There were lots of fighter planes and stunt planes and helicopters and parachuters. After the air show there were slightly less people on the bus. We took the 9pm bus back to Sevilla.

Yesterday, we went to the Cathedral of Sevilla, which is the biggest cathedral in the world - not the biggest religious building, basilicas are bigger than cathedrals. This is the cathedral from the top.
and from the bottom.
And here is a view of Sevilla from the top of the tower.
Plans for the next couple weekends:
This weekend, the director of the program organized a trip for us to go to Gibraltar, Nerja, and Rhonda.
Next weekend we are trying to go to Lagos, Portugal. Still have to book the hostel for that.