Category: Seville
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Deb in Madrid and Seville
Deb Camara was best friends with our daughter-in-law Catarina Gomes when they were growing up. We first met Deb at Catarina and Jason’s wedding and then got to know her better, years later through different running events. She was the youngest member of Sandy’s “sole sisters” running group which originated through a running club which […]
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Sigi and Paul in Seville
It is now Friday April 3 and the world has changed a bit since we started this blog. Now that we have endless time on our hands we have decided to continue writing and posting from time to time. This is our next to last house guests in Seville. We started writing in Madrid about […]
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The Braverman’s in Seville
Jennifer and Sophie Braverman take yearly mother/daughter trips and visited us in London, July 2019. We invited them to visit us in Seville and husband/father Igor was able to get the time off to accompany them. They left Boston the evening of 14 February expecting to arrive in Seville the next afternoon. Unfortunately they left […]
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Córdoba
Córdoba is only a 45 minute ride on the fast train from Sevilla which makes it an excellent day trip. It is also a fairly small city with only a few major sites that we were interested in seeing. Its past history is notable for having served as a regional capital for both the Romans […]
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Philip & Phyllis in Seville
There is a saying that one can choose their friends but not their family. Philip is Jim’s younger brother by five years and Phyllis is his wife of 43 years. We could not choose any better friends than these two. We invited them to spend time with us in Seville and were thrilled when they […]
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Arcos de la Frontera, Tangier & Gibralter
Jim rented a nice little Audi from Sixt and we headed out with Dick and Andrew for Northern Africa with a few little detours. Our first destination was Arcos de la Frontera which is the queen of Andalucías white hill towns. These towns are perched on white cliffs of the sierras covered with whitewashed buildings. […]
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Stalkers in Sevilla
Andrew and Dick flew from Barcelona to Sevilla on January 22 arriving early afternoon. To date they have joined us in every non-US city we have lived in with the exception of Melbourne. They would have come to Melbourne but they were in the process of renovating their new home in Sitges Spain. Jim booked […]
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Falling in love with Sevilla España
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 […]
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Living above The Barber of Seville
It’s been almost one month since our last post on Auckland New Zealand and a busy month it has been. We left Melbourne on 18 December flying home to Boston by way of Hong Kong and experienced our first real travel misadventures of this now almost three year odyssey. Our flight out of Melbourne was […]