Day trip to Sevilla

I love Sevilla. So lively, so lovely, so clean.

One of these decades, I really should make a point of going back and staying longer than a day. Mind you, my full day and a half there four years ago was loooong in comparison to today's quick day trip.

We took the 9:30 train out of Jerez and arrived in Sevilla just before 11. Then, we walked, walked, walked. And walked some more, crisscrossing all over the historical centre. We oohed and aahed at the cathedral and the outside of the Reales Alcázares, even though both Carolyn and I had been there before. But, let's face it: the biggest cathedral in the whole wide world? Still a sight to behold. My favourite part is still the super tall minaret-turned-belltower, the world-famous Giralda.

After oohing and aahing, we shopped for some flamenco-related items impossible to find at home and had lunch at a little Italian restaurant facing one of the many little plazas in the historical centre. Why go to Spain and eat at Italian restaurants, you may ask? Because they're like the Second Coming when you're vegetarian, that's why!

On our way back to the train station, we stumbled upon a "flamenco museum." We didn't go in, but checked out the super-touristy shop and these:

(Couldn't resist the cheesy photo-op...)

Anyway, tomorrow it's back to classes -- this time in the mornings. Hard to believe we've officially hit the half-point of our time in Jerez!