Spain Day 2

Cadiz - Sevilla

     I totally understand why Spaniards are the least efficient people in the world. (source unknown) So after going to sleep at 5am (I had to pack) I woke up at 6:45 ate a quick breakfast and I was off to the train station. Don’t worry, I have learned my lesson, late night at a club/bar + early morning train ride = not a happy tummy and head. My train ride to Sevilla was the smoothest thing possible, but my hour and a half of sleep was not enough. And o boy, my Spanish is bad and I was being the forgetful Marcus of my younger years.

     So I got to Sevilla, and I had no idea where my hostel was, and I forgot my reservation sheet on my bed in the ship. The lord loves me though, because the Tourist office just happened to know where the hostel was. It was an interesting 15 minute walk to the hostel. I checked in and got into my 8-person room, where there were some random people sleeping in the beds, and had the beds pushed together.

     5 minutes later about 15 more SAS peep (SAS= Semester at Sea) and so we went out to lunch. BTW Sevilla is dead Sunday morning. Even though they are about 95% Catholic, most do not go to Church, so many shops were not open, but we found a place, and had pretty good lunch.

     After lunch I was ready for my siesta, because I still had a headache. I was mad at myself that I was too tired to go see Sevilla, but O boy after that siesta I was ready to go. So I bumped into some SAS kids on my way out and we just walked around, took some pictures, did some shopping saw some cathedrals. Then we bumped into some more SASers and we followed them to a bullfight. The spontaneity of all of this was really fun. The bullfight was pretty cool and got tons of videos. I feel so bad for the bulls, but it was a good experience. I then had dinner with some other SASers, so that by the end of the day I had probably spent time with about 25 different SASers. All of the bars close by were closed, so it was an early night (I went to bed at 2am) to wake up at 5:30 to head over to Granada.

     Sevilla was fun, I wish I did a little more, but the architecture, and the way of life was nice to see. Goodbye Sevilla and hello to early morning train, Granada and Alhambra and Malaga!!!