Tuesday, May 6, 2008

CORDOBA





Class Mates! Caroline, Jules and Sharon with Lin


We were invited to a day out at Cordoba by the ‘Centro de Educacion Permanente ‘Constitution Espanola’s. The college we attend for our Spanish lessons.

The excursion included the return coach trip from the Estacion de Autobuses in Ronda to Cordoba, visiting the Barrio Judio y Sinagoga, the Mezquita-Cathedral and the Medina Azahara (archaeological complex) It also included a 3 course lunch, coffee and wine at the El Mirador Restaurante, in the heart of Cordoba.

The cost of the trip was only €15 per person, which represented excellent value and was obviously subsidized by the Ayuntamiento (Town Hall) de Ronda, for which we were all very grateful.

We had a really enjoyable, interesting and informative day, which is reflected in the photographs.

The day was marred however, as a day or two previously we had been stopped in the Land Rover Discovery by the Guardia Civil and informed that the German plates on the car were illegal. We were told in no uncertain terms that we were forbidden to drive the car again until such time as we had obtained Spanish plates and were fined €450.00. Ouch!

We have now started the long process to accomplish this and so far it has cost us €110.00 for the engineer’s report and €115.00 for the ITV (MOT) We now anxiously await the total cost of the import tax!

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