Beautiful Sevilla

After our train ride from Granada, we arrive very sunny weather in Sevilla. We had to do laundry as we were almost through our clothes so we immediately got checked in and headed to the nearest laundromat. It was a bit of an adventure as the first laundromat wouldn’t take cash and we had to find another one. It was a fight with mosquitoes for me and then there was a trip to the farmacia to pick up some needed bug spray and some bug bite treatment. We got the laundry done and got it all hung up to dry. Then we got changed to head out and try and find some dinner. We found a very nice restaurant very close to our house. I’ve had a very good , salmon tostada, batatta salad and duck.

The next day we woke up and as we didn’t have breakfast at our hotel lined up, we went and search for breakfast in Sevilla. We were about 15 minutes from the Cathedral, which was our first stop today so we found breakfast on the way at the Realcazar a nice little restaurant close to the Cathedral. I had a lovely tostada again this morning. An then we headed to the Cathedral to figure out how we had to queue for our time-slot, which took us a little bit of figuring out, but we finally managed to find out what door we had to go in.

The Sevilla Cathedral (Catedral de Santa María de la Sede) is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was built between 1402 and 1519 on the site of a 12th-century Almohad mosque. It also houses the tomb of Christopher Columbus. The Giralda tower is a 105-meter-tall bell tower that was originally the mosque's minaret. It features 35 ramps instead of stairs—historically designed so guards or the sultan could ride up on horseback. We climbed up that first and the views from the top were spectacular. We had 360° view of Sevilla.

After exploring the cathedral for a while, we went for a walk to find the river. And then we found a nice little café where we had a little tapa and some sangria. Then we headed back to our hotel for a little downtime at our hotel pool, which is amazing and has a view of the backside of Plaza España.

Before dinner we went to Plaza España. It was beautiful. It was still very hot at 7pm. We then went back to the district around the Cathedral for dinner. We found a little restaurant and had some very good sangria and tapas. We are really enjoying Sevilla.