Drive from Cordoba to Sevilla

Some road time, but a couple interesting unplanned side trips.

Side trip 1: Olive trees.
I mentioned before the endless olive trees. Well today we took a side trip into one of the …… are they called groves? Actually Chuck lost control of the car and it safely came to stop in an olive grove. (That is a complete fabrication ….. simply amusing myself there.) Anyway, the girlies took some pics of the olive trees. Cool. They also ate an olive or two off the trees, spit them out and pronounced them as vile. Clearly some type of processing is done between the tree and the table.



Olives. (Duh.)

 Side trip 2: Carmona
Inhabited for a long long time. Ruins from about 900 BC are found under the fortifications that were later take over by others and rebuilt and rebuilt and rebuilt. Carmona has a long history which has seen the passage of the widest variety of cultures. Thus, it was first of all inhabited by Tartessans, and later became a Phoenician colony. Later came the Carthaginians. Then taken from the Carthaginians by the Romans. Romans would be followed by Visigoths, Moors and re-conquered again by the Christian Spaniards in the reconquista. I guess that you could even throw in Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1930’s) if you like. Pretty amazing for a US citizen that remembers the 200 anniversary of the US in 1976.



Gate at Carmona.

Other point of interest on the road:I don’t know what it is. The light reflecting off it is real and not an optical illusion or trick photography. I guess we could have looked closer and figured it out, but we were afraid of being beamed up somewhere. Chuck got really scared and started crying. (Yeah, another terrible lie. I can’t stop.)

What is this?

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I think that the Brennie is getting pretty good with the old camera.

Life is Sweet,
Clarke