Sevilla Day 1

or (It's getting hot in here!)

The drive to Sevilla was 3 hours and some to begin with; then we stopped to catch a view of all the things going by too fast on the autovia.

Our first stop was in a small town, Guadix, it was so tremendously spectacular that we had to stop. Our highway overlooked the town's center. We poked around the local roads but never found the frontage road that we saw the town from. Still, it was a nice detour.

We decided to take the exit to the Alhambra. From the highway it is a quiet, simple 5 minute drive to the Alhambra, an 11th century Moorish fortress that was held by the Moors until 1492, then turned into a Christian fortress. We couldn't get in, but we putzed around. After trying to see what we could, nothing to be seen in a well designed fortress, we got lunch.

Naively, we ordered the tummy ache special. Acid lunch. Oranges, tomato and garlic soup, spicy sausage sandwich, and coffee. We didn't eat the bread that came with the soup. We regretted that 20 minutes later as the acids swirled in our stomachs. It was delicious, but we needed a little base to mellow it out.

We drove through hills of wind turbines, radio dishes, and solar panels, two national parks,and the Sierra Nevadas.

Next we stopped in Etapes, outside of Seville, for a potty break. It was a traditional olive growing town. A small, simple village, very attractive and romantic. We had had the car's a/c on for an hour and when we opened the cardoor we were flooded with 46 c or 114.8f air! Oh my glory, that stuff will suck the life out of you.

We got to Seville at 7, we had left Almeria around 12, and parked the car. We found our hostel, much nicer than the ****hotel we stayed at, and went to dinner.

I guess tomorrow is Assuncion Day and they're going to carry the virgin to the cathedral, so we might see that. I want to go to Cadiz during siesta (12- 7 pm) we'll see what Mike wants.
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