Our first non-running exploration was to Catedral de Sevilla which is one of the largest churches in the world and is the largest gothic Cathedral. We rushed to the Cathedral hoping to make a 1:30pm tour but instead attended mass as it was closed for tourism due to ongoing services. We stayed for the whole service in spite of the cold. It is mid-winter here with temperatures in the 40’s and 50’s.
Our first taste of flamenco dancing is in the video below.
This is just the beginning of Seville for us and does not even cover the whole first week. We are really falling in love with this city with its wonderful architecture and quaint winding alley ways. The city is small enough that one cannot stay lost for long. We are also finding the city to be very clean and quite inexpensive.
[…] We took a three day, two night road trip to Tangier, Morocco and Gibraltar which we will cover in another blog. The day after our return from Morocco Jim stayed in bed all day with fever, chills and weakness and Sandy spent the day as tour guide taking D & A to the Cathedral, The Church of the Divine Savior (which we will also cover in another blog) and Setas de Sevilla which we mentioned in a prior blog. […]
Yes Mark we are also disappointed you could not come. It would have been so much fun having you and Donna here.We have made friends with our Air BNB hosts
and maybe in the future we will do a house swap with them for this amazing 3 BR home then you your wife, Donna and Tom can come as our guests. I know you did not get an official number for the BAA 5k but consider running it anyway as bandit with us. We are staying the night before with Donna.
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