Sevilla Congresos Hotel Seville

... off the car at the airport. We found our Hotel Amadeus quite soon despite its Santa Cruz district location – old town – whose streets look like a plate of spaghetti. Did I say we have air conditioning? ahhhh. We’re in the Op**a Room: open the door to Mozart playing on the CD play**…the whole hotel has the ambience.

The show**; I’ve nev** seen the beat of it. Picture a 5 ...

... t enter the gates and all of a sudden people start fleeing like mad.  My friend Evan and I held on to each other tight and before we knew it we turned around and there were La Policia on horses with their batons rarin' to go!   Talk about scary crowd control!  After that hype simmered down, we finally made it to the gates now ready to find our seats.  We asked for help from a security guy and as a cruel joke he sent us to the British section ...

... so we were back on our own trolling the streets. Hark, was that a sound down this way? We rushed down the street to find a nice restaurant with tables in front! Hurrah, success! Of course, the moment we went in they saw the Grim Reapers of New Years Eve and hastily made last call. We bumped into a couple of similarly perplexed Australians looking for a good time, and our group rapidly swelled with a group of young Italians ('Italianos ...

... musulmane. C'est tres frequent ici et c'est ce que je prefere: les cathedrales, ca revient toujours au meme... les arches islamiques et le stucco aussi a un moment donne, mais puisque je n'avais rien vu de tel... c'est magnifique. Seville a aussi l'avantage d'avoir des palmiers partout. Je trouve que ces arbres sont vraiment signe de depaysagement, pour moi. Les chances de voir des palmiers a Montreal sont plutot minces! Le saison chaude est ...

... expected of the third largest church on earth (behind St. Peter's in Rome and St. Paul's in London) and the largest Gothic church on earth. Then we climbed the 34 ramps that lead up to the top of the Giralda (the bell tower that was the original minaret on the mosque that stood there before the cathedral was built in its place). Again, magnificent views all over the city, and of the cathedral and its courtyard itself. After that, we grabbed ...

... my favorite cities that I have seen in Spain so far, big enough to feel like a capitol city but still relaxed and clean so it doesn't give off that metropolitan feel. I will be back in April for the Feria de Sevilla which is a week long fair that just fills the streets from people all over Spain. From what I hear is a non stop party. I can't wait to get back, next time I will stay a few days!

... How would you like to have those hours? Parking is also unusual, they triple park and leave the car in neutral. When the person who is blocked in needs to get out, they just push the car out of the way and drive away. I had fun watching from Maya's patio as people arrived for work in nearby buildings. Amazing! Side note: Our cousin plays on the Madrid basketball team and they won the championship Sun. night. Maya and Nischelle(Debbie ...

... take a number. It's like waiting at a deli counter and then they assist you when your number is called. I actually like this system better.   Tonight, I met my friends Becca, Heather & Reina for some intercambio. We met Heather's Intercambio, Alberto, and his two friends, Alberto and Jesus (there are a lot of Albertos in Spain!) in an Irish pub. We were celebrating the fact that Jesus just bought his first apartment at the age of ...

... decided we were over jet lag enough to go out. We got ready and I met Becca, Heather, and Heather's friend Elaine at 11pm. Elaine is very nice and goes to Villanova. Becca & Heather's Señora told them about this place right near the CIEE center so we headed there first. It was tiny whole in the wall that didn't even have a name on the outside of it. It was pretty big inside and when we got to the main room, there were a ton of locals. They had a bar, another counter with food, and ...

... and decorative fences are similar are used to "connect" everything (like other palaces and statues) together, and everything that can be clean is spotless. The same goes for any other monument or place of public interest; everything is taken care of almost in excess (if that's possible), making every spot in London picturesque. This actually makes me feel sad because Paris has so much more potential than it lives up to! Outside of the ...