Seville, Spain

One of the things I said I would do on this trip is very cliched, but today was the day. A haircut from the Barber of Seville.

After my 1100 peseta haircut, we got some food from the supermarket and headed into town.

We stopped at Parque de Maria Luisa, which is like Seville’s Botanic Gardens, where we ate our breakfast, before continuing on behind Plaza de Espana. This is where many government offices of Spain are, and the outside of the buildings contain mosaics representing the different regions of Spain.

Plaza de Espana, Seville, Spain

Plaza de Espana, Seville, Spain

We had lunch at an Irish pub just behind the cathedral.

After lunch we went to the Royal Palace. Yet another superb building, with its great architecture, interior design (being Moorish, it was very similar to the Alhambra) and spectacular gardens dating back as far as the 10th century.

Royal Palace, Seville, Spain

After a couple of hours in the palace, we went back to the hostel, cranking up some much-loved air conditioning to combat the 40ºC heat.

Dinner was at a Chinese restaurant near the hostel. We arrived at eight pm with nobody around and had finished our meal before another customer had arrived. The meal was delicious and extremely cheap. For 750 pesetas we each got a large spring roll, fried rice, main meal, drink and desert/coffee.

We caught a bus into town after dinner to meet Matt & Jen for a drink. We had a couple at a Tex/Mex bar that they had dinner at, and then moved to a bar down by the river. It was three am before we called it a night, and closer to 4am by the time we got home in a cab. By this stage we were genuinely freezing, even though the temperature had only dropped to 23ºC.