winter jaunt to seville

[tcm]

it's around now that boaters find themselves carted off to some distant non-boaty place to "make up for" the boating during the rest of the year. I found myself booked into a weekend in seville, which is an ok place. Tiny streets and orange trees in abundance. You clatter around on a horse and cart, and then look round the cathedral, and the museum of fine art, and then loiter around bars having tapas. There's a bullfight every day in April, then every weekend in may and june, but none in july and august. The most expensive season ticket costs nearly 3000 euros. The Alphonse is the best hotel, but not as super-central as the dona maria whose terrace is the place to be for an afternoon drink with fab view. I daren't ever look at estate agents in spain as the kids make comments along the lines of "Plice in Spine!" in a mocking chav-like essex accent. Mind you, they started the orange-hurling fight, not me, although I did gettem back with a couple of decent head shots in the park.

 

[longjohnsadler]

Ooh I'm going in April.
No view on foxhunting except over the years the twats have killed dozens of my chickens, some in cold blood and left behind (wot you going to do about that Mr. Blair?) but not sure I could stomach the bullfights.
Anyway did you go further afield, like Cordoba or Ronda? The area around Seville is sposed to be really interesting too.

 

[tcm]

the main interesting bit is central seville, really. Outskirts are new with dual carriageways everywhere. I went to granada which is a bit of a buslty city, alhambra sort of ok in a quiet reflective sort of way but not worth an entire weekend. Anadalusia is quite interesting landforms if you are a geography student, rolling hills covered in olive trees plus ruddy great rocky outcrops but you can't exactly stop and walk around cos it'[s all owned by one farmer or another.

 

[kds]

"Alhambra sort of ok"

You suprise me. I found it architecturally stunning (and I am a real pleb !) This is an incredible Moorish legacy. Did you get to the bathhouse where the slits of coloured lights from the Sun, change as the months pass by ? and the newly restored Summer house ?
Sorry to butt in - but it really was an eye opener for one who was jaded from Churches, altars and hundreds of fat, flying catholic babies.
Ken

 

[tcm]

um, well, i had better cough to being even more of a pleb, cos i didn't think it was that incredibly magical, really. Mind you, i can do three loire chateaux in a morning. I think i hahd hoped the town itself was going to be more intersting instead of it being alhambra and er that's about it.