On the road to Cordova

Sun 30th March 2014

Left the Camping Merida in bright sunshine shame it wasn't like this yesterday morning for taking photos. Set off heading south towards Cordova. Forgot to mention yesterday that all the roman ruins we visited are heritage listed and weren't excavated until 1910. Also when they began the footings for the Museum they came across the original roman road which joined Merida to Cordova over 250km long! Other buildings and tombs which they have kept as is and now it forms the crypt of the new museum, this is now a work in progress slowing excavating what they have found. Our drive today took us through open plains full of olive trees. The soil is a beautiful red brown rich colour.the last few days on the road we have seen vast fields of solar panels. We crossed the boarder into Andalucia and most of the villages seem to now be white villages which look stunning against the green and browns of this now more arable and livestock land and not so many olive trees. Driving along we spotted a castle ruin on top of a lonely hill that was standing out like a sore thumb. So if course we had to pull over and park up in a beautiful village ( houses were all white and most had shiny ceramic tiles on the bottom half of the outside) and climb it! It was a steep climb but well worth it for the views. It was The Castillo de Belmez. Arrived in Cordova late afternoon, filled up with diesel and E2 gas LPG !!!! We managed to find the campsite right in the city without too much trouble (it helped it was a Sunday and no traffic). Expensive site E26 without power! Probably be here two nights. Motorhome pulled up next to us - Aussies' !!!!!! Had our dinner and then went next door to them for a drink and to swap stories and places of interest.