Sevilla

We are just back from a fantastic visit to Sevilla, in the west of Spain.


A beautiful city, well known for its Seville oranges grown for making marmalade, magnificent historical buildings, many restaurants and bars, and lots of international tourists, even out of the summer season!

The Bullring

The Cathedral

Feliz Cumpleanos - Happy Birthday

On Sunday afternoon, we were invited to a party for our friends' daughters' 3rd birthday.

The birthday girl

The party was held in their garage, with a dozen or so children, and lots of adults..rather strange to see the party table all set with snacks and fizzy drinks, and to watch the adults take their seats and start to eat, while children were running around in the garage, playing.

Lots of cheese puffs, crisps and olives! followed by salami sandwiches, and the centre piece, the birthday cake, a concoction of chocolate mousse cake with lots and lots of squirty cream!

Drinks flowed...cola, fanta orange, cerveza and whisky! (not to mention one spanish chap who was drinking banana milkshake with added green creme de menthe liqueur!)

Yes, we did sing Happy Birthday to you....Feliz Cumpleanos a ti...

Andalucia Day

Today is a Bank Holiday here in Spain...Dia de Andalucia was 28th February, but as that was a Sunday, today is the holiday, with schools closed. It appears it is the custom to decorate balconies and fly the Andalucian flag, green and white...but have not seen any in our village.

We have been for a walk around the village this morning, lots of amazing architecture, old town houses, that are usually reformed into something very modern, however, there are several on and around the high street that have survived.