Leaving Sevilla
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...
Nothing specific was planned today. Normally we would have spend more time in Triana yesterday and visited the Alcazar now, but since Triana wasn't that special we did all that already. That gave us plenty of time to just hang around the centre of Sevilla. We sat at Plaza del Triunfo for a while, wondering what to go and see, and then we started of for a walk. We came past the Plaza Nueva again, and as it was still cool at the square this time, it was easier to enjoy it. There actually are many great buildings surrounding it, that I hadn't noticed last time, when I was tired from the heat and the walking. Then we passed the Plaza de Torros, which we didn't enter, and cruised some small streets in the area.
Back at the Avenida de la Constitución we found this delicious butchery/bakery/patisserie shop. We intended just to buy some baguettes and go to picnic somewhere, but we couldn't possibly leave without having some of the marvellous cakes and pastry's. They were sweet, heavy but basically haven!!!
On our way to the Prado de
Every large city, and even the smaller villages, have bus stops where you find connections to almost every other city in Spain. From Granada for example, there were even coaches to Madrid and Barcelona, many kilometers to the north. These long distance busses are very comfortable and most of the time cheaper than the trains.
We went from Sevilla to Granada by bus instead of by train, and this turned out to save us quite some money yet it took only ten minutes extra time (we booked a direct line with no extra stops).
There is no need to reserve seats days or weeks before (although this is possible), yet better go to the ticket sales early to make sure the line you want to take isn't sold out by the time we arrived. We never booked in advance, traveled in high season and hadn't any problems with shortage of seats, by the way.
The main bus company in Andalusia is Alsina Grealls. This one serves most cities and towns. Yet there are companies like this all over Spain, all with specific routs and timetables. When you arrive in a bus station you'll find they all have there own ticket offices, so you can compare their services, destinations and prices.
