The GPS road tracklog
from Almaden to Cordoba
from 2019/10/11 to 2019/10/12
Cordoba
Monday, November 11 I entered Cordoba around 8:30 and I found a
parking at Jardines of Merced. I moved on foot towards the main post
office to ask for the arrival of the registered letter containing my
driving license. After having made a queue I reached a counter, the
employee after several research informed me that the letter was at
the El Brillante post office where I went always on foot curving in
the old city by the narrow streets. The letter had arrived well, it
was given to me to the sight of my passport. I returned to my
vehicle to give of the currency in the parking meter to continue my
visit towards Rio Guadalquivir. Puente Romano spans Guadalquivir
with 16 arches to connect Gérone to Cadiz by Via Augusta. Of course
it was several times rebuilt. It is at the bottom of Mezquita and
not far from the Alcazar of los Reyes. I had forgotten thatmonuments
and museums are closed on Monday. I returned again to my vehicle to
establish my bivouac two nights in the camping El Brillante.
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I spent the morning of Tuesday, November 12 to walk in the huge
prayer room of the Mezquita Mosque built in 785 and completed in 960
by the Caliph Al-Hakam II who ordered the construction of the Mihrab
whose bow is composed of 1600 kg of gold tesserae donated by the
Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phokas. In the center of the prayer
hall was built in the 16th century the high altar of the cathedral
that occupies the Mezquita. The result is deplorable. Charles V
would have said: "You have destroyed what we saw nowhere to build
what we see everywhere". At a temperature of 9 ° C I returned to the
campsite in the early afternoon..
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| Minaret of Mezquita |
The GPS road tracklog
De Cordoba à Bivouac, Repsol gas station
Du 2019/10/13 au 2019/10/13
En route, Repsol gas station
Wednesday, November 13 I left the campsite to go to Mercedes-Benz at
the exit of Cordoba in Granada on the road to Seville. Indeed the
lid of the Cyclone air filter had been stolen. Today the weather is
rainy and the water will enter through the snorkel damaging the air
filter of the engine and, especially the injectors and consequently
the engine! Arriving at Mercedes-Benz I explained the problem. The
foreman explained to me that he did not have this type of air
filter, but that he would find an ad-hoc solution. He cut a circular
piece into a plastic can lid the size of the hole above the snorkel
as the air entered through the bottom of the cyclone air filter. The
consequence is double no water in the system, it's OK, but the
cyclone function of the swirling air that separates sand and various
rubbish from the runway runs no more. I should clean the engine air
filter more often. Of course in parking I remove the plastic bowl,
because in case of new larceny there would be no alternative. I do
not comment on the name of this larceny. I warmly thanked the
Mercedes-Benz foreman for his efficiency and helpfulness. I was
driving late to Seville to stop 30 km before the city on the parking
lot of the Repsol gas station, tomorrow will be another day.
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| Do-it-yourself with Mercedes-Benz, Cordoba |
Bivouac, Repsol gas station |
The GPS road tracklog
from Repsol gas station to Séville cci 27828
from 2019/10/13 to 2019/10/13
Sevilla
Thursday, November 14 by a cold morning I arrived at the camp-site
cci 27828. It is rather about a carpark with an electric connection
for the motor homes but without bloc, there too close to the Repsol
station. At once I left for the downtown area to visit the cathedral
and Giralda. The cathedral was built on the site of the mosque, in
state of decay, from 1401 to 1501 after one century of work. Only
the minaret, Giralda, were preserved and consolidated. As attest it
the pictures the interior is a profusion of wooden and stone
statues, religious paintings and liturgical objects in precious
metal. It is a overflow of wealth probably paid with gold coming
from South America during plundering of the Indians by the
conquistadors, "God, Gold and Glory". It was necessary for me more
than three hours to traverse this extravagant religious building of
the Latin exuberance far from the austerity of the French cathedrals
like Notre-Dame de Paris, Chartres or Vézelay.
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| Giralda |
Friday, November 15 by a temperature of +6°C I left to visit
Alcazar, old fortress built into 913 by the Moslem governors of
Seville and increased during the 11 following centuries of which
Christian kings after Reconquista. It is a vice of stuccos with
arabesques to which are added religious statues and paintings. The
whole of the Moorish rooms is arranged with patios of any beauty
testifying to the magnificence of Almohades, in full tale from the
Arabian Nights. The day was very cold with a sky alternating the
azure and the black.
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| Patio de las Doncellas |
The GPS road tracklog
from Séville cci 27828 to El Bosque
from 2019/10/16 to 2019/10/17
El Bosque
Saturday, November 16 I wanted to visit Ronda where I arrived around
11:00. The city was plagued by tourists in Indian lanes on sidewalks
and pedestrian walkways, all outdoor parking lots were crowded and
streets too narrow to park. I passed my way to El Bosque, same
situation, but I found a parking in the street along a sidewalk
where I stayed two nights until Monday morning too happy to have
found a bivouac. Sunday was rainy and cold, + 1°C at dawn.
