Jan 5, 2013 - A Day in Sevilla Spain

Today is in Sevilla and it is a beautiful town. It has that old Spanish feel to it for sure. We are staying in the old part of town with the cobblestone streets and little narrow roads going here and there. The first stop today is the bakery that has chocolate croissants. It will be the first but not last chocolate croissant of the trip but not the last I'm sure since we are going to France still. We the crossed the street and got some Starbucks it is all good. The Cathedral is now open so inside we go. OMG what a site the place was huge...

Jan 4, 2013 - Must be day 3 here. Granada at night on to Sevilla

Last night we didn't make it to the Flamenco dancers but instead found a great place right by our hotel to see the Alhambra at night. We then found a restaurant/bar that had tables on the roof overlooking the Alhambra it was beautiful. I put a picture of that on today's even though it happened yesterday. Today we got up had breakfast at our hotel and got the car out of the garage and left Granada. We drove through hills of olive orchards and other crops it was a lovely drive. We came upon a small town of Carmona and had some sangria and...

Mar 17, 2012 - Y Sevilla

Sevilla!!!! The weekend after Nerja our program took us on a weekend overnight trip to the capitol of Andalucía: Sevilla. We left bright and early Saturday morning, and our first stop was Itálica: an old Roman city with lots of really cool Roman ruins. After about an hour tour we all got back on the bus and headed straight to lunch (thankfully! we were all extremely hungry and just slightly cranky). The last 15 minutes of a tour with 25 hungry college students is not very pleasant... We had a group lunch at a restaurant called El Cabildo...

Oct 5, 2011 - Sevilla

Today I bought another book - Spain has the most convoluted history. We walked through the gardens by the Alcazar to get to the older part of town and the Cathedral. There was a monument for Christopher Columbus in the middle of the garden. He seems to be everywhere. There is a tomb in the Cathedral floor but they moved him to another chapel just a few feet away. Maybe he'll get to stay there. This Cathedral like a lot of the ones I'm Spain was originally a mosque. Therefore the architecture is a mixture of styles. After a delightful lunch...

Jul 13, 2011 - Sevilla

Tomorrow night I am going to try to take the bus to Lisboa, Portugal. But for tonight I am still in Spain. My hostel has air con. I sleep happily every night. In my dorm is a Czech student doing research on the Spanish economic crisis, and a Polish flamenco dancer and her mother. It is quite an interesting room. They are some of the nicer roommates I have had. I am very haapy to say that this is going to be my last night in a dorm for a while. More often than not I end up with really ruder roommates, and after 3.5 months almost I have...

Jun 28, 2011 - Sevilla, Monday, 6/27

We take the #3 bus back to the train station, heading for Sevilla, a quick 30 minute ride at a cost of 17€ each. If Cordoba was hot, hot, hot, Sevilla is hot, hot, hotter. We got in around 4:00 and decided to take a bus into town rather than a taxi. At this point, we rather like the challenge of navigating. Mirta reads the map and I read the picture icons - a great pair. This is the hottest part of the day - 42 C - 104 F, 95 UB (under brim of my hat)! We stopped in a great cafe and had a refreshing drink, Tree of Life (red wine and fizzy...

Oct 11, 2010 - Donana wetlands south of Seville

Today we went to the Donana wetland area. As we wanted a quiet day to recover, we wanted to just take the morning there, and so visited the area closest to Seville. This area was in an agricultural area on the edge of Donana...and in the many rice paddys we saw lots of white storks, two different egrets...the purple heron, lots of different seagulls. We watched the men in tractors plowing up the flooded fields with thousands of birds milling around in a frenzy of activity. We found a wetland sanctuary, which was closed. we did peek under...

Oct 8, 2010 - Sevilla

Sevilla for 4 nights....just as well. The driving has been a bit onerous for the past 3-4 days, and I need a break. We arrive on the 8th in the late morning, and could be booked in but to a smoking room....not on your nellie we say, so we park the car and catch a taxi to the Museo de Bellas Artes...nominated (by themselves, maybe) as the second best art museum in Spain after the Prado....the artists amongst us (guess who) say this is a very well presented offering, and that the Murillos (look it up if you don't already know) are wonderful....

Nov 13, 2009 - The Sun in the South of Spain

I realize it has been a while since I have written an entry. But I have spent the last three weekends away from beautiful Barcelona. First of which was the wonderful and extremely relaxing city of Sevilla, Spain. This is my first over night stay in another Spanish city besides Barcelona. Sevilla is different in every single way. The language is different (no Catalan), there’s no metro system, it’s so much quieter, the buildings have an Arab touch, there’s bull fighting and flamingo dancing, and every street is a tiny winding maze. The whole...

Feb 14, 2009 - Valentine's Day in Sevilla

Hi Friends and Family, For Valentine's Day, Jason and I wanted to go to Sevilla. Each of us have visited this city before on our own and have really liked it. This Spanish town has a lot of Arab influence in the architecture of the city from the early Moors. And the weekend before, when Jason and I were passing through on our way to Cadiz, Jason made the comment, "this city is like us" with his Costa Rican/Spanish heritage and my Lebanese/Arab background. It was only fitting to come to this city to celebrate Valentine's Day and our...

Jan 18, 2008 - Mi Querida Sevilla!

YAY!!! Last night we finally arrived in my new home of Sevilla! Today I get to meet up with the rest of the TCU study abroad crew and will begin going through orientations for the semester. I move in with my Senora on the 20! The past couple of days have been great! After seeing the great Mosque/Cathedral in Cordoba, my parents and I travelled down to Granada. Granada is home to the Alhambra, and let me tell you there are no words to describe the shear size of this thing! Inside the walls of the Alhambra are multiple Generalife gardens,...

Jul 5, 2007 - Day 29 - Ultima Noche

Checked out and dragged my bags to the car, locked it and walked back to the Mezquita. Still feeling hungry I found a little bar next to the Mezquita and ordered a media tostada y cafe con leche for breakfast. After that I went in and hired an audio guide, but the ticket office was still closed. I noticed people walking in so I just followed and I got in, without a ticket. Woohoo! Another freebie thanks to being the early bird, or at least earlier than whomever opens the ticket office. I mean, come on, it was like 10AM, sheesh, that's...