We left Granada and took a bus to Cordoba and a new backpacker’s hostel. All was well until the Gherkin broke it.
Oh he claims he didn’t do it on purpose. But he was the one using my laptop when the battery ran down and it needed to be plugged in to charge.
It wasn’t easy to find a place to plug it in and I may have been the one to suggest the extension cord that had nothing plugged into it.
So the laptop was plugged in but it wasn’t charging. So the Gherkin went to unplug it. Doing this resulted in the end coming of the extension cord, sparks, a loud bang and the power going out to half of the hostel!
Yes he was (solely!) responsible for blowing out the electricity, creating a blackout in the building!
I scampered off to bed in the dark while professing my innocence. I believe the hostel had to call an electrician…
The next morning the Gherkin slept in and I went to see La Mezquita.
If you go early in the morning it has free entry so I was happy to get up. The Gherkin preferred to stay at the hostel to rest (and I presume to plot more damages he could produce). So I left him and went on my own.
La Mezquita is on old mosque so it has the old Arabic architecture so lots of the peppermint striped arches and lovely
marble columns. But it also has some old Christian stuff too. It was quite dark inside and I enjoyed quietly viewing the beauty of it.
I came back and was sitting on my bed which was the bottom bunk when the Gherkin dropped a very large bottle of bodywash from his bunk above me. It hit me on the way down and then proceeded to spill and created a large sticky puddle on the floor. Yes the Gherkin was yet again a one man wrecking crew. His carnage never ends. He refused to clean up the mess and went with the argument that the floor was dirty and this was cleaning it anyway. We were only there the one night so he didn’t really have time to cause much more harm to the hostel.
Thus we slunk shamefully out of that place.
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