Well what an adventure the last four weeks have been at the home stay. After my two past experiences I really didn't know what to expect from this one, but as it turned out it was the cultural experience that I was expecting all along. I worked hard in the mornings doing anything from weeding to pruning to feeding the animals, water blasting, digging, raking and planting, and I managed to have a pretty good time as there was another helper here who happened to al...

Arriving at yet another bus station I had to find yet another metro (where I stood like a dork at the turn style while I looked for ages for the bit where it sucked your ticket in and spat it back out, turns out this was just one that scanned your ticket to open the gate - thanks to the help of some guy beside me who must have thought I was retarded)and decipher yet another set of metro maps, but without too much fuss I made it into town and wandered a short dist...

I rose fairly early with the notion of walking to train station, but when I stepped outside and found it was just as hot as it was yesterday I went in search of the bus and took the easy way. I got there a bit early so had to wait for around an hour, then found my train and zipped to Seville. One there I knew I had a while to kill till my bus at 1.30 so I thought I would walk to the bus station, but once again the sun won... sun 2 Melanie 0 - and I went in search...

The first thing about Cordoba was that it was HOT, very very hot! The moment I got off the train it was walking into an oven. When I got out of the station I went in search of my number 3 bus, and after a bit of wandering I saw number 3 drive by.....s***. I was NOT in the mood to wait for half n hour for the next one so I decided to grab a taxi, the first of of my whole trip, so I thought I could treat myself this once. After checking in and armed with a map and...

Well my second home stay has proven to go much smoother than the first! I was picked up the moment I got there and taken out for a coffee, always a good start! Back at the house I was shown my room (yes actually one in the house with a double bed!) and then after some time to acclimatize I was shown the pets. They gave me a rundown of everything they expected, the do's and don'ts and it was quite a bit to take in but at least I had all the info from day one! Whe...