Seville - Part 1

Seville is the capital and largest city in Andalusia with a municiple population of 700,000



8am in granada waiting for the train to Seville.  one last look at the Sierra Nevadas





Triana Backpacker's Hostel is on the Triana side of Seville.  Keep in mind that bob is an insomniac and can't sleep and is destroyed for the whole trip.



but there is no time for that bob when there is this going on outside!







Seville Cathedral





Palace Garden



salmorejo from some upper scale tapas place, can't remember the name.



can't remember what it is, was amazing though



all i remember is it was some different kind of meat cuz we chose it for that







garbage can



lots of tea out in the open



Horchata, is not from seville but we had to have some



super sweet



Metropol Parasol







what a nice young man





went to check out the kayaks.



Flamenco show at La Casa de la memoria.  What an experience!  first off flamenco guitar is super hard to  do.  Didn't know there was an MC of sorts who sings, and runs the pace of everything, and claps which enables an insane combination of counter-claps and stomps so the music and rhythm can reach a feverish insane speed and intensity.  the dancers are professional finger snappers, twirlers, stompers, etc...  The floor is probably designed to amplify every stomp.  what a show!





you're cute and all bob but this photo is all about the tiles at bar estrella.



can't remember and can't remember.  maybe some kind of mushroom on the left and standard jamon serano on the right?



some kind of meatball

One Last Day in Granada

One last day in Granada, part of it spent in the cathedral but most of it spent in Albayzin



it was time for bob to try paella, it's not from granada but is from spain.  we just picked a random place.  this one was not so good bob sorry.





inside the Catedral de Granada.  check out those pipes on her!







I like how the floor tiles are so old they are wavy.







the most ornate sheet music i've ever seen



bob really wanted this photo of these cacti.



this ceramic plate stuff is everywhere.  i wanted to get one but i guess that didnt happen.



in the exploratory mood we sought to go as high as possible.  some kind of crazy tall plant on the right.



people dug out cave home on this hill in Albayzin.  a few of them were pretty pimpin' but most of them were kind of sad.  But they're living off the grid.









Alhambra from the grottos of albayzin



bob really wanted this photo of the chorizo, beer and alhambra in one shot.



probably the best photo of bob you'll ever see



a parting shot of Albayzin.  Dream Spain, a great place to explore with no itinerary.  After this me and bob bought stuff to make super bocadillos and ended up eating them in bed, thusly sealing our fate.  we couldn't move after that.  So final thoughts on Granada:  Alhambra had too much beautiful stuff.  Albayzin is the Spain of your dreams.  The free tapas thing is awesome, it's not like a feast of food and drink like I imagined it but it adds up if you do it for hours.  If you go exploring you will be rewarded.  make sure you wear super comfortable and cushioning footwear because the streets are not playing around with their razor cobble stones.  Granada is definitely a great place to get away to, i don't think i could live here because I need city stuff but for a few days it's a dream come true.