August 29, 2008
Today, after feeling more on Europe's time, we walked around the labrynith of streets and explored the Cathedral in Granda. This has always been my favorite in all of Europe, perhaps because it feels a little bit like home or maybe because it's just so different from others yet simple but magnificant. Again, the experience of deja vu, was everywhere...
After a bocadillo (sandwich) lunch, we grabbed our backpacks and made our way to the train station to go to Seville. The ride was beautiful. Thousands and thousands of acres of olive trees followed us our entire way to Seville.
The south of Spain is vastly different from any other part of the country. It is arid and HOT... temperatures of 100 to even 105 were experienced while we were there. The Sierra Nevada reside just behind Granada but for the most part, Seville was relatively flat yet has a river which runs through it. This has been my favorite city- it is striking and is illuminated by all the colors in every building. The buildings represent the true spanish style in architecture. Since we arrived early in the evening at 8 PM, we walked to our hotel: http://www.hotelamadeussevilla.com/. Talk about a labrynth of streets! Getting to the hotel from the train station was the ONLY time I was able to find it throughout our entire stay in the city. For reason, I was always turned around or my 'internal compass was off' for the day, as Chad said. He did much better than me, in finding it over and over again.
Since, it was getting to be about that time: a time to eat once again!- we began our tapas hop and had sangrias along the way. We never knew where we were going, but always tried to find where the locals were eating. We had tapas such as croquettas, tostados with jamon y aciete (toast with ham and olive oil), etc.
The city was exquisite at night-I still didn't quite have my bearings around the city just yet (I should have since I had been there twice before)...but either way I couldn't believe we were really in Spain... :)
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