Friday, October 16, 2009

Sevilla; Granada; Malaga

Sevilla was my all time favorite city. Old castle on the top of the hill. Beautiful; enormous cathedral. The third biggest; after St Peter, in Rome; St Paul in London than this gorgeous cathedral in Sevilla. We walked: walked and walked some more. Saw an incredible exhibition about the way of seeing. Very impressive. Also went to the old bullring. We contemplated going to see a bull fight; but as the bull gets killed in the end; I decided I couldn;t face that. So for my birthday we saw a flamenco dance performance. All of a sudden I don;t remember how to spell it. I would love to come back to Sevilla and study Spanish. Granada was purely for the pleasure of seeing the Alhambra. I could have done with a week there. I just loved it. It took awhile to get our heads around how to get in etc. Much smarter to buy the tickets on line; rather than wandering around ; waiting in wrong queues and being totally baffled by the system we didn;t understand. I bought Peter the Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving; who lived there for three months; while writing the book. I loved the watercolours and ink drawings hence the reason I bought it. The old city in Granada was alqo very interesting. Narrow winding streets; full of wonderful things we did;t buy. We only stayed two nights: A shame really.
Malaga ;too; was lovely. I have no idea what we did there. We went to the beach some where in Tormilinos. If ever a place was ruined this is it for sure. We are ready for Morocco.