Seville

We missed the train from Madrid to Seville by 1 min. Actually we reached 1min before the train's scheduled leaving time, but because the gates close 2min before train leaves, we missed our train. Now, how are we supposed to know that? So paid 14Euros each to change the already expensive ticket and made our way to Seville.


Beef writing complaint letter about the Madrid Atocha station officers who refuse to let us board the train. Nice guy beside her who donated us the piece of paper to write the letter. We returned the favour by offering him our exotic Asian snacks which he very politely refused.


Narrow Seville streets, I'm really amazed at how cars can squeeze through these tiny alleys.


Seville Cathedral. It's the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, whatever Gothic is, I still don't know. According to Wiki, "gothic is a pejorative term that came to be used as early as the 1530s to describe culture that was considered rude and barbaric. Style emphasizes verticality and features almost skeletal stone structures with great expanses of glass, pointed arches using the ogive shape, ribbed vaults, clustered columns, sharply pointed spires, flying buttresses and inventive sculptural detail such as gargoyles." To me, it's just very dark and scary.






Organ in cathedral.






Giralda or bell tower. We reached this place after walking up 34 floors of ramps, not stairs cos they used to make horses drag stuff up there. Poor horses, it's really bad on the knees.


At the top of the ramps, last one is a flight of stairs.


View from the tower, with the rooftop of this Gothic church


Bull ring in the distance


Orange trees in the courtyard. Seville has a lot of orange trees, there are dropped rotten oranges on the sidewalks..


Alcazar, a Moorish palace, I don't really know what Moorish is too..


In the palace


Sausage rice thingy.. Quite nice, but took forever to come, and we shared this tiny plate of thing for dinner before going to watch flamenco. Flamenco was good, song and dance and music. Flamenco is a really intense dance, you must have a super bitter/sour expression on your face when you dance to have the style, or you can just look constipated. The dancers are good, very sharp turns and very fast footwork. Too bad no photos cos it's really too dark in there.


A group of people singing on the street. Wonder why they're doing this.


Our lovely hotel rooms where we took an extremely long siesta in. Too bad the streets of Seville are cobbled, it's terrible to drag luggages on.. Almost died trying to get to the hotel. Ended up cabbing to the train station the next day cos we didn't want to drag again, and we didn't want to miss our train again.