Drinking and Eating

Inside the cathedral


Matt and I Joined up with a couple also from Quebec in Canada, meaning they also speak French and had them show us some things they found and liked in the city. We went to Plaza de Espagna which was built for a 1929 Exposition and was very beautiful from a distance but has not been kept up and has many missing tiles.

For lunch we went to a restaurant that has a paper menu with 100 small sandwiches on it. You pick as many sandwiches as you want, they are 1.2 Euro and then you get a 2 Euro beer for 1 Euro. So basically you get a giant beer and a tiny sandwich for 2.2 Euro, not a bad deal. The food and the beer were both really good. Then we headed for dessert of ice cream at a place that had specials on 1 EUR ice cream cones.

We went to a park and they had this angled wheel that you can climb or stand on and it is like a horizontal hamster wheel for people it was really fun even though I could only stay on it for a few seconds before I fell off.

Matt has had an upset stomach for days and headed back to the room to rest. I went out with the Quebec couple to waste time with them until their train left later that night. We walked along the river and then went for some snacks and beers.

Later that night I met some more Canadians, they are everywhere! We went out with the new Canadians and some Australians. We went to a pub and it was rather expensive so I suggested the place where you can get a sandwich and a beer for 2 EUR and we decided to try and find it. I knew there were two of them, but I couldn’t remember where one of the two was. I later learned it was 4 businesses away around the corner from where we were, we ended up walking across town to where I knew the other one was. Sandwiches and beer are quite delicious.

The next day I went to the cathedral in town which is very large, nice and similar to other cathedrals in Europe. I spent the rest of the daytime walking around the town looking at things. I really like Seville, it’s clean and organized. We hung out in the main room of the Hostel and met even more Canadians and Australians. We had a room full of everyone being Canadian and Australian with the exception of me. At night we went to see a free flamenco show and caught the last 10 minutes of the last show of the night. It was entertaining.

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