Day in Sevilla – June 13, 2022

Welcome to Sevilla! Other than being scorching hot – it looks to be a very exciting city! The hotel is very nice and the front desk ladies gave us a map of the sights and circled everything that one should see. They were surprised that we were going to walk into town (I get that a lot when using a walker) however it was only 800 metres to the first place that we were to look at – how far could we walk in one day? Well, that answer will come later! First, from where we are starting, Seville has a “Kingsway” type street in it along the river, so streets are not quite straight or grid like – they seem to go everywhere and then there are the large traffic circles…. So we walked by the University of Sevilla where we met a peacock in full colour, past a couple of Consulates and then onto the Plaza of America which was lovely except for the pigeon feeding! Then we progressed around the Museum of Modern Art onto the huge park grounds called Parque de Maria Luisa which we walked down the main path (with a few side detours for pictures) until we got to the main road into the Plaza de Espana which is a very famous semi-circular building in Sevilla that was built for the 1929 Worlds fair to showcase Spain’s industry and technology exhibits. What was really cool where the tiled alcoves that are around the plaza, each representing a different province of Spain – I will be editing them and posting the ones that we have gone to – it was interesting to see that we will be touching over half of them! Spain has MANY provinces (50) – way more than Canada! After that it was time for some cold beverages and onto our next sight – the Torro del Orro which we saw from the street as there were MANY steps to get down to it and it looked like there were stairs inside of it too. Instead, it being 2pm we decided that a better beverage break was needed – Andrew wanted more than just water. So we found a cute little cafe and sat inside and had lunch. Gluten free was not a problem for them – they made me some chicken and potatoes and Andrew had the Caesar that we originally were going to share until we found out the chicken was breaded! Now fed and liquified, we tried to find our next sight – Real Alcazar. However the 42 degree heat at that time of day – I soon hit the wall and could not go any further. I looked at my pedometer and we had already walked 11 kms! No wonder! So we hopped into a cab and went back to the hotel – funny enough the 1st cab that I flagged down was a wheelchair accessible one! After resting at the hotel for a couple of hours and stretching to get my muscles going again, we walked to the nearby grocery store to top up our supplies and we had a nice picnic dinner that night in our suite! Tomorrow we will see Real Alcazar, the Cathedral, Parasols and walk down the shopping street which you cannot miss between them (sorry Andrew!) and we shall have done all that the hotel has recommended and more! Last goal – one of the gluten free restaurants for dinner 🙂

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