Sevilla

Sevilla, May 1^st to the 4^th.

LOVED Sevilla! It’s the prettiest town I’ve ever seen. Food was the best we’ve had yet too. I was really blown away by the architecture and the parks and the people and the history. I didn’t realize what an important city it was in the past for sea voyages and trade. Two of Columbus’s voyages left from Sevilla.

 

First pic from Plaza de Espana, built in 1929 (?) for the world's fair. Above pic from inside the Alcazar, a beautiful palace right in the center of town built by the Moors.

(Above pics: Miles and the gorgeous Tio Pepe girls (representing a kind of liquor) and Miles with a group of Sevilla women dressed up for the Feria.)

We also lucked out and stumbled into the Sevilla Feria, the biggest festival in Sevilla and one of the biggest in Spain. Basically what it meant was that everyone, especially the women and girls were dressed up in their Sevilla finest. They all had on flamenco dresses. Yesterday we went to see the actual fair, which was pretty awesome. They had hundreds of permanent looking tents that each housed a private party. People were spilling out of them. In some they were dancing and singing, in some they had security at the door, in all of them they were eating and drinking. Then off on one end of these rows of tents was a huge fair with rides. Miles went on his first Ferris wheel and had a blast.

We stayed in a packed campground south of Sevilla in a town called Dos Hermanas. Strange little place. Our campground, while nice, was pretty much off the highway next to huge container stores and nothing. We had to walk 15 minutes to a weird little bus stop and then wait to take a 20 minute bus ride to town. That’s the only problem with traveling in a camper and trying to visit places. Keep in mind too that we have Miles with us. Bus rides aren’t a novelty anymore so convincing him that we’re going to visit a city for his sake is getting more and more tricky. Needless to say, we’re off to explore smaller towns with adjacent campsites.