Sevilla Travel Blogs

As today was the last day of our trip and we had heaps of time to get to the airport, we decided to enjoy the last of the sun as best we could. We took our time to get outside though, packing, reading a bit more and just getting the most out of our room at the hostel.   We left around noon,…

Holy Week in Seville Semana Santa en Sevilla is one of the most important traditional events of the city dating back to the 1400’s.  It is celebrated with great pleasure the week leading up to Easter.  The thing I noticed was the great feeling of Family, many generations walking hand in…

 After a week & ½ to think about it I am still at a loss for words;  In⋅de⋅scrib⋅a⋅ble-adjective-not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable beauty; indescribable euphoric day spent at The Alcázar of Sevilla. The following information is pret…

Ground Level-The height of which something stands from the Ground, Floor, Benches, Walls, Post & Ledges of SEVILLA Spain.

Today is the day, my sister will get married. Toninght at about six o'clock they will say "I do". Sensible as my sister is, she gave us the morning off. After an exhausting friday, full of exciting impressions, a day that tickeled all the senses, we could have this saturdaymorning to ourselves! My …

Sevilla is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain & the home of Carlos de Tuga del TravBuddy, my most gracious host.  Sevilla is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, the people of the city a…

The Catedral de Sevilla is a totally unbelievable Gigantic, Colossal & Massive expression in stone of Gargantuan post-Reconquest confidence, wealth & over the top “My Church is Bigger & Better than Your Church Bravado”.  Catedral de Sevilla is the third largest church in Europe…

The Silver Living Statues Of Sevilla stand very still on a silver wheeled box or crate like a real statue until money was dropped into “The Hat”.  The Silver Lady of Sevilla would then nod her head smile, curtsy & spin her Silver Roses. The Sevilla Silver Soldier would stand guard stil…

Pictures & Thoughts from a 07:27 780 Second Sevilla SunUp Stroll by Old School Bill & Friends The memory of a morning walk in Sevilla will remain with you always ~Old School Bill If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a …

I didn't sleep too well, since the shock of discovering the beetle hadn't completely faded out. Yet no other creepy creatures turned up so the night passed by relatively well. I showered in a rush this morning though, as you never know what else one might run into in that scary bathroom... N…

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it" .....(The Alchemist)

Today's my last day as a student in Sevilla. I'm feeling a little sad to leave the place tomorrow because i've grown to really like this place. It's not so much the place because as much as it's full of culture and sights (lovely barrios and narrow streets), it's not my kinda place to liv…

So we decided to take a couple of weeks off and go see Spain. It didn't take long to choose destination or to pick the route. I guess, we were doing a lot of things wrong and we could think it all through in advance, but that's just us, me and my friend from Latvia, we bought tickets to Sevilla and…

I don't know if it was the expensive beer, the Licor 43, the lack of fresh air in our room or something else, but Mark and I both awoke with a slight hangover. The excellent breakfast buffet at Al-Andalus Palace helped a bit in the  recovery process  but a nagging headache lasted until we…

Day 1. As we flew above Spain in our chartered jet, I thought to myself that if anything, I'll always remember the endless fields of sunflowers that colored the countryside. We landed at a small airstrip just a few miles outside of Rota. There weren't but a handful of people as far as the eye could…