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February 7th 2010

Published: February 16th 2010

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KatieLyn

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SEVILLA Day 18

I began my day walking towards the city centre but stopped on my way at a plaza that had an art market. The paintings were stunning; all different styles but all beautiful. I decided that it would be too difficult to buy and ship home a painting so I found one place that a girl had taken her large drawings, of flamenco dancers, and turned them into bookmarks. So I bought one of them because it would store easily in my bag and not get damaged. I tore myself away from the market and headed back towards the city centre.

My first stop on my self guided tour was the Plaza Toros Maestranza, the bullfighting stadium. The bullfights do not start until April but that is ok with me because I do not think I could actually watch. But there were lovely statues outside of bullfighters. I continued on to Plaza de Espana, which I don’t actually know what its purpose is but it has breathtaking tile work all over the building. I think it is now just a general public area for people to relax. But all throughout the outside of the building there

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are little sitting booths decorated in tile for each major city of Spain. They are doing reconstruction on them so I was only able to see half but they were very nice. It is definitely a must see place.

I continued to walk through the park and started to hear music, like in San Sebastian. So I followed the music and found another concert, although this one wasn’t free but I could still hear it clearly from outside. After listening for a while I began to wander through town again. I really enjoy seeing the orange tree lined streets it adds that little extra splash of colour to the city.

I headed past he Real Alcazar on my way to have some Paella and Chocolate con churros for dinner and desert. The Paella had shrimps in it, they still had their whole body, eyes, crawly legs, and antennas. It was good but I like Esther’s way more. The dessert was a really thick hot chocolate with a fried donut type thing, in the shape of the crueler, to dip into the chocolate. It was really good but the oil on the donut was too much for me so

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I only had a few bites.

The following morning at breakfast I met a Spanish guy who was very chatty and he said to me “ I really like Canadians” and I said “oh really is there any specific reason or you just like us all in general” and he said “I like you cause Canadians always know where their towels are”. I looked at him confused and he explained that it was a reference from the novel ‘hitchhikers guide to the universe’, which I had not read. He explained it to me and I found it very funny.

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