Vertice Aljarafe Seville

... but we ran our asses off with our bags - VERY amazing race of us!!!!<br><br>So to Seville we arrrived safe and sounds to start visiting sites... the people in SEville are much nicer then Granada but the city is not as charming. Mais bon c´est tout de meme une super destiantion... so we visit the bullfighting ring - beautiful and we learned alot about that ´sport´?!?!?!<br>THen off to the REal Alcozar, the Cathedral and ...

... br><br>After seeing all of this overblown gaudyness, I can understand the extreme reaction of my iconoclast ancestors. Turf all that **** - and who made you Pope anyway, they said. It must have taken some guts to turn their backs on all that fancy stuff and worship in ordinary buildings with ordinary guys leading the service and no decoration of any kind. Those 16th century Anabaptists must have serious and dangerous radicals.<br><br ...

... my host mom. My roommates arrived around 8:00 pm. I live with two very amazing people - Chloe and Andrea. Chloe is from Hawaii and Andrea is from New Jersey. We're a very eclectic bunch. The next morning (bright and early) at 10:00 I had orientation at the college. School is only about 20 minutes away from where I live which is nice. I think I've been spoiled by Truman, though, and my five minute walks to class. We had to take a proficiency ...

... a female and male singer, and female and male dancer. I had seen the film Vengo that profiles flamenco music, so I knew what to expect but it is much more hard hitting live. Evolving from gypsies (with Indian ancestry), the Moors and traditional Andalusian folk music, it is the music and culture of the poor and impoverished. I read that In early days the wild flamenco parties often ended in fatal brawls, so they were banned ...

... the style of churches that were built in the gothic era after the Christian reconquest of the city, ca. 1300-1500 but still had strong Moorish artistic elements, either due to the fact that many craftsmen were of Moorish origin or because people simply preferred the former artistic style). That evening, some of us went to check out what we'd heard was the best Mexican restaurant in town (hey ...

... een beetje te vergelijken met antwerpen, vermits er een grote laan autovrij is, zoals de Meire en je zo langs andere plazas en de kathedraal komt! Het is ook heel modern met authentieke gebouwen. Het is ook iets properder dan Cádiz, mss juist omdat Sevilla een stad is en toeristischer is. Zelfs in het busstation liep een kerel de grond te vegen en al het vuil van de grond te rapen. Geen hondendrollen dus zoals hiere haha. Ik ben ook een latte gaan halen in Starbucks, dat ...

To our delight, the Seville art gallery was free. There's just something about free museums: something enchanting. A free museum can almost make me believe in the joy of learning, in the purity of artistic expression, in the egalitarianism of the system. A free museum creates a sense of voluntarism. A non-gratis museum makes me feel pressured to learn: since I've paid I must make sure that I absorb everything. A free museum allows one to relax ...

... before it goes off automatically. So there I was in the hallway, turning the key all the way one way before turning it all the way the other, continually pushing the button so I could see, and leaning against the door since there is no doorknob, just the key, so I figured if it unlocked at all, I wanted to get the door open before somehow I locked it again. I did this for about 10 minutes before I gave up, sat down, and played cell phone games. I did that for about 5 minutes, then ...

... the world "Torremolinos" that I had to take a train to get there. I first thought I was miles away and was in trouble, but it turned out to be a short little journey. I spent the first day in Torremolinos and came to the quick conclusion that it was a ****** tourist trap. Not nice but too over-the-top with its crappiness. Same bars and shops every two feet and you HAD to pass them to get to the beach. Same type of deal with trashy, over-priced hut-style bars on the actual ...

... all parties. In the evening the people settle into the cafés for tar-like café solo and artery clogging crema catalanya, chain smoking and arm waving. At night they spill from the bars onto the streets and plazas, chain smoking, arm waving and savouring their fino or manzanilla with little bites of smoked almonds and stuffed olives or deep-fried anchovies. They bring their children out to skate on the specially frozen section of the central plaza and eat a paper cone ...