Iberian the Country Spain (think about it for a second)

So the last week or so has been spent most pleasantly in Spain. It was an uneventful, yet tiring, journey, and we were greeted with cheek kisses and open arms. Living with Yaiza and her parents make me appreciate good food again, and not just having pasta, sandwiches, and schnitzel in a heavy rotation. And the food is quite good. Like REALLY good. I would attempt to describe it, but that wouldn't do it any justice. The temperature here is like spring at home. The days are around 60-70 degrees, and the nights get down to about freezing. But it is nice to go walking outside in a light jacket, with a cloudless, deep blue sky, and warm sun.
The people in Cordoba, the city in which I'm staying, couldn't be anymore different than the people in Klagenfurt. That could be for the fact that there is a much larger younger population, but I think some of it is cultural. The people are much more liberal minded here, and I don't have to walk out of Yaiza's house to see it. She laughs and jokes with her parents about anything. For example, one of the families friend showed us an email that was to teach the definition of the trocken (dry) versus feucht (wet). To illustrate it however, the email used naked pictures of women. And her parents were laughing along with the rest of us. PLUS, there are hippies here! It feels a little like home, to see so many people in dreadlocks and wearing hippie clothing walking around.
The city here is really elaborate and interesting. The streets are narrow, and there are Roman ruins to be found everyhwere. Actually there is some street called something like "the handkerchief street", because it is wide enough to stretch a handkerchief from one wall to the other. There are signs of Arabic, Jewish, and Christian influence. You can see the majority of the Arabic influence in the architecture, and in the people as well. The skin tone and hair color all seem to derive from Arabic ancestry. AND, last night we went to an Arabic tea house, and had some delicious tea and smoked some tasty hookah.
Today we head off to Granada, to spend two days there, in the flat of one of Yaiza's friends. Other stops in store for our stay are Sevilla and hopefully Africa(Tangier, Morocco)!!!