What a Journey Home from Work

Monday Morning Photo - Palacio de la Merced, Cordoba

Once one of the most important buildings in Córdoba, Palacio de la Merced was founded in XIII century as a Mercedarian monastery. When the order was dissolved it became an orphanage then in the 1970s a Provincial Government seat. The Baroque portal is in the middle of the enormous frontage, the cloisters and monastery church remain and services are still held there today. Palacio de la Merced See the Monday Morning Photo list. Where to Stay in Córdoba city? See my choices in my Only Spain Boutique Hotel collection - Casas de la Juderia Hotel Balcon de Córdoba Hotel Viento 10 What else to see? Check out my Córdoba - Lots to See and Do post on Luxury Spain Travel.

I thought I´d share some views from the drive home from "work" today. We had to go and photograph a house that is being sold and do some repairs, every day is different, today was an enjoyable drive that felt like an outing.

I love it when we get paid to explore this beautiful and diverse land we now live in.

Cambil is about 50 minutes from home, south towards Granada on the edge of Sierra Magina and the area that Penelope Chetwode rode in Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia that I´ve just finished reading. It is also where the film Entre Lobos took place, a wild unkempt mountain range, especially fifty years ago.

I love the rock formations and the greeness, compared with home. My area is full of olive trees and between them, right now dead weeds or brown earth. In the real heat the olive leaves turn their under shiny side to the sun.

In the Sierras or mountains there are more pine trees so it all appears to be more full of life in the arid summer months.

Coming home I got snap happy out of the car window and was quite suprised and pleased with some of the shots. So my journey home from work was like this....