First Seville, we flew into Malaga and took the motorway up to Seville, it is very well signposted and even without a map or Sat Nav it would be easy to follow. We stayed in a hotel on the Triana side of the river, problem with Seville is parking so we had to choose a hotel that had it's own parking spaces even so it still charged us €19 per day. Also the room heating was set very high and the air con was not switched on so we could not cool the room down. Left the window open all day and night. It was not cold by our standards but the locals were all wrapped up. As we had arrived on Friday afternoon and were leaving again on Sunday morning we got out and about very quickly.
We went out and crossed the Puente de Triana bridge and headed towards the Cathedral and Giralada tower then back down towards the river. This gave us the basic idea of where things were.
Then after a quisk change we went out and had something to eat. I had the local speciallity of Fried Fish, which is a plate of a whole mix of small fish and prawns, far too much and I could'nt finish it. My wife got a pork dish with blue cheese sauce, again lovely but far too much.
Next day we set out after breakfast for our big walk and headed back towards the cathedral. We did not go into the Cathedral but I took a few photos of the outside and of the tower.
Then we headed to the Alcazar.
This is just like a smaller Alhambra and really worth the visit.
Lots of photo opportunities and for us there
were not that many "Tourists"
(we are not tourists we are photographers and artists)
Also apart from all the usual rooms, look out for the entrance to the "Banos de Maria de Padilla" the moorish baths of Pedro the Cruel's mistress.
Then we headed to the Alcazar.
This is just like a smaller Alhambra and really worth the visit.
Lots of photo opportunities and for us there
were not that many "Tourists"
(we are not tourists we are photographers and artists)
Also apart from all the usual rooms, look out for the entrance to the "Banos de Maria de Padilla" the moorish baths of Pedro the Cruel's mistress.
We then walked out to the Plaza Espana, a great Semi circular building set into a large park area.
By this time feet were getting sore (new shoes) and we headed over to another smaller palace and then walked through the main designer shopping area. One thing I will say about the Spanish in Seville, they are very stylish in their dress.
After our visit we then travelled up to our own place on the Costa Blanca area. It took us 8 hours including stops, and we went from light cloud to heavy rain and from 10c in Seville (it got cooler and wetter when we left) to 4c going over the Sierra Nevada and up to 17c on our journey up. There were strong winds and some very heavy showers but we ended up the next day in sunshine and did very little travelling around after that.
