Best Deal Ever

They have large sandwiches also


Yesterday was a cool day in Seville with temperatures in the high 90’s instead of the 100’s. It was still very hot and walking down the street leads to massive amounts of sweating. Putting on a new shirt is pretty much futile as it quickly becomes wet and stinky. I am still in Seville but have made a plan for the near future. I will be heading to Granada today for 3 nights and then to Madrid and then Valencia. Hostels, which I like much better than hotels. Hostels provide a great way to meet and interact with other travelers whereas a hotel keeps you isolated from the other travelers. Booking at least a week in advance at hostels can yield a great discount, so I made hostel and hotel reservations when no hostels were available. It is also much cheaper to be able to go to the grocery store and buy food to make in hostel kitchens versus eating out.

Today I went to the local grocery store to get some things I needed and I was like a kid in a candy store. I was in there for well over an hour just walking the aisles and looking at things I haven’t seen in forever. I was even looking at things I couldn’t possibly have a need for like dishwasher detergent, just to see familiar things.

Matt ates hart. Meaning he hates art, but he would pronounce the sentence I hate Art as I ate hart. Silly french speakers. I don’t actually know if he hates art but it’s how he would say it if did hate art.

We went back with a larger group to see the free Flamenco again last night and this time they had different performers. The woman looked like a man with very large breasts, we joked that is was cross dressing night at the free flamenco. We were able to see the full set this time and it was very entertaining even though it was way too hot in there.

When we were walking home from the Flamenco I saw several piles of concrete powder that were going to be used to make concrete once they were mixed with water. I strategically placed .01 EUR coins in several piles throughout the city. So that one day someone could come back and look in the building and find old Euro coins, in essence making me legendary. It seemed genius at the time.

Today we took the bus from Seville to Granada and we will spend a couple of days here. Then Matt and I will part ways. He has already been to Granada but he really liked it, so he didn’t mind coming back.

In Granada they have tapas bars, I am sure they are in lots of other places, where you get a sandwich, burger, or many other items with a beer for 2 EUR. That means I can get three burgers, three fries and 3 beers for the price of a meal at McDonalds. What a deal!!

The internet at my hostel might just be the slowest most cumbersome internet I have ever experienced.

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