We finally get on the train on Saturday morning and we're off. Getting to Seville, we get a rental car and head into the city. The city is very confusing, but after about an hour we finally find the Cathedral - which is the 3rd largest in the world, after the Vatican and St. Paul's. There's something very surreal about Seville - it feels like you're on a movie set, like nothing is real. But everything is gorgeous and real as real can be. Although we didn't think we would have enough time to do everything we wanted to, we look [View Full Entry]

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Well that was Kev's comment during our tour earlier today. We're now resting for an hour before its time to get ready to attend a Flamenco dance concert. At the present time (4pm) its about 39 degrees Celcius although, unlike Sydney's heat, there is no humidity. In fact its quite pleasant although who I am to talk like that since I'm now sitting in an air-conditioned hotel room! Ok, what did we see on our Seville tour? First stop the Jardines de Murillo lined with gently swaying palm trees and boasting beautiful tiled benches, sculptures and fountains that integrate perfectly into [View Full Entry]

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Coming to Seville was a shock. At first I thought I might have made a mistake. I was so enamored with Granada's small town cuteness that Seville'e metropolitan feel was an unexpected change. But now that I have adapted a bit and gotten a feel for the city - I love it here too. It's quite metropolitan but, being a big city, has a lot to see and do. My first day here I just walked around and tried to adjust to the city. I stopped by the tourist office, got a free map, found my hostel, left my backpack and [View Full Entry]

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Well we finally made it to Spain after a nail bitting morning waiting for my passport. We spent most of the night packing our bags and finalising last minute bookings as we didn't expect the passport to arrive in time! After a standard Ryan Air flight into Sevilla we made our way into the city centre, depositing our bags at the Oasis hostel before collapsing for an afternoon siesta as we were warned not to be typical tourists braving the day heat. Up at 4pm, ready to tackle the sites of Sevilla, we left the hostel but found the streets devoid [View Full Entry]

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What a great week! I had my midterm last Monday in my grammar class. Of course, I set my alarm to get up early so I could study and get to class on time, but like my typical self, it didn’t work out. The test started at 9, but I didn’t actually wake up til 9:10. I frantically thew on clothes and ran downstairs. I knew it was too late to take the metro so I asked the receptionist to call me a taxi. She called but a taxi wouldn’t be there to get me for 10-15 mintues. I knew I [View Full Entry]

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First stop Spain [View Full Entry]

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It is a miracle of God that we´re still alive!! We drove from Sevilla to Cordoba with at least five different maps - none of which we could really read. Everyone we would ask would give us a map and highlight the route, with pen, drawing through the names of the streets. We decided to throw away most of the maps and just go by intuition. That mostly served us well. We arrived at the tour point in Cordoba at exactly the moment the tour was to begin. They were waiting for us! Each tour has been such a treat. Usually [View Full Entry]

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The last weekend in May, we went to visit Seville (Sevilla). It was a great mix between Malaga and Madrid--mid-sized, fewer pickpockets, it maintained a homey feel but in a much larger and more commercial space. I would never trade Malaga for it, considering it was beachless, but I can easily see why it's the capital of Andalusia (Andalucia). The whole two days was honestly one huge blur, but very enjoyable. We spent a few hours wandering the streets and seeing Sevillan architecture before heading off to the Alcazar gardens. They were beautiful (not surprisingly), and had belonged to a royal [View Full Entry]

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I had two days left in Sevilla before moving onto the capital of Spain. Since food is so cheap in the south, I ate like a king. In fact, if one showed up, I think he would have been comfortable. This two week long feasting meant that I had alot of food left over, and so my last two days were filled with experimentating and creating new dishes from lentils, couscous, auburgine, asparagus, tomato and (vegos look away) chorizo. About three frying pans full of my concoctions were consumed by my housemates and (mainly) me in that short period of time. [View Full Entry]

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well well well..i am back! i am going to save you the trouble of complaining about an excessively long entry and ill break it up into 2...i wish i could write shorter entries that were written more often, but there just isnt time and access to computers long enough for this to happen..soo..here we go! i think i left off last tuesday, with the flamenco show that we went to! i will post the video and pictures on this blog from that. wednesday was fairly low key, class and then an attempt to study, which didn´t really happen wednesday night i [View Full Entry]

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