After an overnight bus, I took a picture in the bus station. We got to Seville at 5 o'clock in the morning, and went out exploring till we could check in the hostel.
At 5:30 a.m. we dropped out bags off at the hostel, and then we went exploring and saw a lot of things. One of them was the Alcazar gate. Alcazar was medieval castle/palace.
We also saw a cathedral or "catedral" ("kat-e-draal") which has Christopher Columbus's bones in it.
I took a picture of a plaza in the nice morning light.
A beautiful entrance.
It's a nice picture of the cathedral from an alleyway.
This cathedral used to be a mosque.
There were a lot of patterns in the sidewalk made with stones. this is a pattern of a dove. You can barely see it.
This is a cool 1940s or 50s car.
As we explored, we saw more things. One of them was a door with hand knockers. It kind of looks wrong because they are two right hands.
Back at the cathedral later in the morning.
This statue represents the King that sent Columbus to sail, which led to finding The Americas. One one side it says "Fernando" and on the other side it says his wife's name "Isabel."
I got my haircut by the "Barber of Seville!" Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Hope you like my haircut - behind me is his certificate saying that he's the barber of Seville.
Walking by, I noticed a pastry shop full of nice sweets!
After our afternoon nap "siesta" we went to Alcazar.
Alcazar was kind of a museum as well, and it had lots of cool tile, and there was a hologram that pictures of the tiles were projected on the floor, and I'm standing in the middle.
Beautiful designs at Alcazar.
After awhile, we went to the last part of Alcazar, which was the garden and a room of tapestries. This is a picture of a tapestry showing a map of Spain, France, and Africa, but from the position of France, so it looks upside down.
This is a dead rat outside of Alcazar
Walking around the cathedral, we saw a guy dressed as the devil, and he was a street artist.
For dinner we went for tapas which is assorted small snacks that you can eat as dinner, kind of like hors d'oeuvres.
That night we went to a Flamenco show. I liked the dancing and singing, and I felt moved.
Afterwards, I had a popsicle that looked just like a watermelon, and it tasted like strawberry, but then the green part tasted like watermelon. The seeds were chocolate
Hi Arjun. It's Anne again! Jamie and I took a bus from Lisbon to Evora in Portugal, spent a couple of days there, then another bus to Seville. Your photos are reminding me how beautiful it was! We went to Christmas Eve services in that cathedral and the orange trees in the plaza were strung with little silver lights for the holidays. We walked through the narrow streets of the Jewish quarter and saw a lot of the old Moorish/Islamic architecture and tile work too. I'm not sure if we saw a dead rat, but LOTS of dog poop, especially along the Guadalquivir River. Hey - it was Queen Isabella who sent Columbus, or maybe both of them together, but definitely not King Ferdinand by himself! Your name got called at the 5th grade moving up ceremony and there were some photos of you in the slide show.
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