Last Sunday we arrived in Córdoba, Spain, on an advance planning trip for the Islamic Art History Symposium in November. VCU, VCU Qatar, and the Qatar Foundation host the event every two years - check out the website to learn more about this year's event. http://www.islamicartdoha.org/
We help with web, IT, graphic design, and advertising. It was so helpful to be there in person to see the site and meet with the awesome planning committee members based in Córdoba. It gave us a unique insight to the culture of this beautiful city, and we enjoyed our time immensely. The below pictures were taken at the Mezquita, which the city is well known for:
Andrew was at first pretty happy to be able to get the Giants-Eagles game in our hotel room... we won't show any 'After' pictures.
Our final day in Córdoba included a trip to the Medina Azahara, a smaller Mosque set in the countryside about 10km outside of the city.
After our planning work was done, we decided to spend a few nights in Madrid before flying out on Sunday. We fell in love with the architecture and the delicious tapas; visited the Prado and Reina Sofia museums, and viewed their extensive collections of work by Miro, Picasso, Dali, Goya, Velazquez, and Rubens. Ironically, Art History was neither of our strongest suit, but we recognized quite a few masterpieces (and the rest we identified with help from the museum brochures!)
And below is a Prego pic in front of the Prado museum! Traveling went pretty smoothly for the Mom-to-be (the second trimester really is the best!) Plenty of energy, a healthy appetite, not too big to be uncomfortable, but just big enough that people felt sorry for us and gave up their seats on public transportation (score!)
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