Sevilla, Spain

On Friday, we packed up our rented car and took off in the afternoon for Sevilla. This trip had a few new encounters including driving in Europe, a place where they love roundabouts, one of the more ridiculous travel concoctions we've seen. After daring and fear, we made our way through a few of them and out of Madrid on the highway. The journey lasted about 7 hours but it was fun as we winded through the mountains and into the plains of Andalucia. We arrived in Sevilla around 1230 and wandered around the city looking for our hostel that was hidden in the labyrinth of Sevillan streets. After a serious of unfortunate events that resulted in I having forgotten my passport in the car, I discovered upon returning to the car to collect it that something had nearly punctured our tire. We spent Saturday morning eating breakfast and trying to change a tire. The tire change went off well and the local police circled our car a few times trying to check out what we were doing but in the end, the only trouble we had was putting the tire back in place under the car. After we gave up and put the tire in a trash bag in the trunk area of the car, we headed to the Alcazar. The architecture is from the 10th century A.D. and was built as a Moorish fort in the southern part of the Spain that the Moors inhabited for quite a while. A lot of the designs inside are similar to that of the Alhambra in Granada, also part of Andalucia. The gardens out back had a mix of designed plants that formed mazes and fun designs. There were also a ton of lemon trees and orange trees which have fruit that should not be eaten because of how bitter it is. Our entertainment was watching some young uninformed American girls pull fruit from the trees, peel them, take one bite, and spit them out while furiously trying to wipe the taste off of their tongues. After we visited the Alcazar, we headed off to the Plaza de España, where there was a huge display of tiled benches for most of the cities in Spain. We ate lunch at a couple of different places in Sevilla and left around 6:30 to head for the Portuguese coastal city of Faro. We spent the evening there and had dinner in a wonderful little restaurant that had waiters who could speak tons of languages. We capped off the evening with some dancing and a couple of drinks before heading back to our hostel that costs us 11 euros a night.

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