But on a couple of the days we definitely had 18° in warm sunny spots!
16 Feb 2012
12 Feb 2012
A little bit of sun
It's not warm here by any means - 10° today - but by the look of things, that means we're getting at least 10 and in some cases nearly 20 degrees more than back home, so we're not complaining!
The thing you *do* notice, though, is that when the sun is on you, and you're out of the cold breeze, that it is a very warm sun. Definitely a different one from our watery English sun at home.
You can feel the heat in it! It's so nice to sit there with the sun on your face and get actually hot for a minute or 2
Just long enough to warm your bones before bracing yourself to resist the icy breeze!
11 Feb 2012
Tapas for tea, again, oh dear!
Absolutely stunning tea tonight at a local restaurant. Mega tapas. The best one was cuttlefish meatballs. Sounds like it'd be dead fishy but in fact it was completely delicious and light. Another winner was the veal cotoletta. Love veal!
I'm afraid I'm going to be drastically disappointed when we get home as tapas is probably my favourite way of eating. Multiple small plates of different food. Nothing really compares at home.
Blue sky
It's not boiling here, 10-14 degrees, but the sky is sooo blue, it warms the cockles of your soul, wherever that is!
The best coffee!
We think that the Spanish cafe con lece is just about the best coffee in the world!
Some nice tapas!
As you will imagine, we have been partaking of the excellent local tapas options here in Seville. It's very normal to go into a bar and order a small beer and a single tapas. Or rather tapa. This gives you a side plate size portion of whatever it is.it's also pretty normal to go from bar to bar doing this - a tapas crawl!
10 Feb 2012
Larging it
After giving it a bit large yesterday; walked miles, ate tons and drank more, we've had a nice quiet day today - reading, walking the local area and are now SAT OUTSIDE in a Spanish/Italian restaurant waiting for our dinner!
9 Feb 2012
Adventures in Seville - 8th feb
After a relatively uneventful journey down to Stansted we got parked in the (very easy to find) long term parking, and were on the bus to the terminal and checked in, in under 3 and a half hours from leaving home.
As per our normal custom, we found a nice bar and got ourselves a lovely pint of Guinness (extra cold) to begin our time away. We also are beginning a bit of a new custom, (last 2 holidays) which is to have dinner at Yo! Sushi - they seem to have been springing up in airports around the place - which I totally love!
The flight was short and again, non eventful apart from a very VERY annoying set of uncontrollable Spanish school children who swarmed up and down the plane squeaking and squealing loudly whilst the ineffectual teacher did nothing. Dan called them the 'Spanish St. Trinians'. I suppose that would make the teacher Joyce Grenful. Am I going back a bit too far?!! Anyway, kids today *sigh* !
The taxi was quick (8km from airport to the town centre) and he drove through narrower and narrower medieval streets. So now we get to the hotel which has a very grand frontage in Plaza Santa Maria la blanca.
The hotel is called...Las Casas De La Juderia 'the houses of the Jewish quarter' and is made up of 17 houses which are all in the area behind the grand palazzo which forms the frontage. They are linked together through what must be the original narrow medieval streets, and each palazzo has a central courtyard - very much the local moorish style- through which you have to walk in order to get to your room!
It took us about 3 goes to be confident about getting through to our room without error - we will post a video of the journey from the front door to our room, later on!
The room itself has a king sized bed, a full on waterfall shower (Dan's happy) and an interesting window arrangement which spans 2 floors of the adjoining courtyard; a bit above and a bit below the floor!
Currently we are sitting in the "piano bar" aka the main courtyard of the palazzo which makes up the grand frontage and reception, onto which they have put a roof and some wi-fi!!!
As per our normal custom, we found a nice bar and got ourselves a lovely pint of Guinness (extra cold) to begin our time away. We also are beginning a bit of a new custom, (last 2 holidays) which is to have dinner at Yo! Sushi - they seem to have been springing up in airports around the place - which I totally love!
The flight was short and again, non eventful apart from a very VERY annoying set of uncontrollable Spanish school children who swarmed up and down the plane squeaking and squealing loudly whilst the ineffectual teacher did nothing. Dan called them the 'Spanish St. Trinians'. I suppose that would make the teacher Joyce Grenful. Am I going back a bit too far?!! Anyway, kids today *sigh* !
The taxi was quick (8km from airport to the town centre) and he drove through narrower and narrower medieval streets. So now we get to the hotel which has a very grand frontage in Plaza Santa Maria la blanca.
The hotel is called...Las Casas De La Juderia 'the houses of the Jewish quarter' and is made up of 17 houses which are all in the area behind the grand palazzo which forms the frontage. They are linked together through what must be the original narrow medieval streets, and each palazzo has a central courtyard - very much the local moorish style- through which you have to walk in order to get to your room!
It took us about 3 goes to be confident about getting through to our room without error - we will post a video of the journey from the front door to our room, later on!
The room itself has a king sized bed, a full on waterfall shower (Dan's happy) and an interesting window arrangement which spans 2 floors of the adjoining courtyard; a bit above and a bit below the floor!
Currently we are sitting in the "piano bar" aka the main courtyard of the palazzo which makes up the grand frontage and reception, onto which they have put a roof and some wi-fi!!!
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