Tapas Heaven!

Ola Amigos!

We come to you live from sweltering hot Sevilla! Yesterday we arrived into the bus terminal at around 6pm-ish and thought someone was having a laugh and left the heating on, but no no, in fact it was an amazing 42 degrees! We made our way quickly to our hostel. After checking in we headed out to Seville's beautiful bullring for a quick tour. We were taken into the arena and shown the varying details such as the purpose of each entrance, the kings seat and the bull hospital. Interestingly, the ring is not round like most others in Spain but in fact oval which was not a design element, but in fact a mistake! Later that night we did our own slightly inventive Tapas pub crawl, before ending up at a FREE flamenco show and sharing a jug of Sangria.

Today we rose late and headed to the Alcazar. The Alcazar is a building with has been built, rebuilt, remodelled and extended throughout the entirety of Spains history. It reflects the changes in religion, political opinion and monachs over the centuries. Therefore it is a little diverse in its make up, but spectatular nonetheless. It currently houses the royal monach of Spain and is free to students (no matter how old the card).

Afterwards we had a quick bite and continued on to the Cathedral. The cathedral houses Christopher Coloumbus´ tomb, the largest gothic alterpiece and a 90m bell tower that had originally been the minaret of the mosque which the Cathedral had been founded on. So similarly to the Alcazar, the Cathedral was a little from column a, and a little from column b. The afternoon has seen us book our tickets to Granada where we will spend the next three days and visiting the very gaudy looking Plaza de Espana and dancing around in its fountain. Tonight we plan to TapAs and revisit our free flamenco haunt in the hope of a new or at least repeat performance.

Love, Us. xoxo

At the bullring.

J at the Tapas bar, they kept our tally on the counter in chalk. Pretty cool huh?

Us at the Alcazar. Inner courtyard.

Plaza de Espana.