We slept in slightly and packed up to leave Madrid. We had a car take us to the train station. I don’t know what I expected from the train station but this was not it. There were all kinds of trees in the main rotunda. Navigating was easy enough and we got on the train without major drama.
When we arrived in Seville, a driver took us to our hotel. The neighborhood where we are staying has very narrow roads. Most of the time we have to walk single file on the sidewalk.
We ventured out to explore and had tickets to go to the cathedral even though we are going back with our Seville highlights tour. We climbed the Giralda tower which was 34 flights but all ramp. We took several pictures from the bell tower up top but there wasn’t really a lot of space to sit and hang out so we went back down after we were done taking pictures.
We explored the cathedral a bit and had audio guides to help us. This is the largest gothic cathedral in Europe so it’s huge. Again very opulent and so many chapels dedicated to different prominent people. There were chambers off the main chapel as well that we wandered in to.
After the cathedral, we met our food tour guide. It was hard to get a larger tour for a Sunday so we had to book a private one, which I think was actually better. Our tour guide Mila is from the area and took us to all her favorite places where real Sevillians go. We had spinach with chick peas, sandwiches and orange wine (wine made with raisins and orange peel, then marinated fried fish and a cold soup made with tomato and bread. Everything was really good, I did not like the wine though it was super sweet….like liquid raisins. Mila said she loves getting lost in the Jewish quarter so took us around a bit in between restaurants. She let us know that the Christopher Columbus tomb in the Cathedral is slightly contested because a few other countries (Mexico, Dominican Republic and maybe Argentina?) think they have his remains. Allegedly they performed DNA analysis to confirm but we were joking about how the science seemed sketchy.
Our hotel here is really nice.
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