Sevilla and Córdoba (April 2022)
Sevilla is 37 degrees. I didn´t expect this temperature. I already have mosquito bites lining my forearms and ankles, and I expect more to arrive. This hostel is (amusingly) called Room 007. There is nothing Bond-esque about it, expect maybe the balcony that looks over clustered buildings. I had another interesting BlaBlaCar journey here. Our driver José gave us three passengers (a translator, a languages student, and a language teacher) an immediate talking point by mentioning that we were all linguists. Strangely, none of us took him up on this and instead we all had individual conversations with José, which were initiated by José. He asked me about Murcia, travelling, Brexit. We also talked about Mexico, Latin America, the rise of the far-right, Catalunya. I didn´t agree with some of his views e.g. Colombus was just a sailor who landed in another country. At one point I described Irish people as "maga" which he found hilarious. I've come to understand "maga"
