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When we took the kids to Sevilla last fall, one of our top "sites to see" was the beautiful Alcazar The Alcazar was originally a Moorish fort, and served as a palace to Spain's royal family. It has been expanded several times, and with each expansion, you can see ...
Sevilla's narrow cobblestone streets and densely packed businesses and homes make traditional garbage pickup difficult, so the city installed an underground pneumatic system to take the garbage away. E was fascinated by the "trash cans" with their swinging doors and couldn't resist investigating.
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For the past several days in Sevilla, E has been literally begging to go on a train, funicular, gondola or a bus. Of course, the tourist destinations in Sevilla are close enough together that it hasn't made sense for us to try a bus, and there is no subway ...
Over the next few days, I will be catching up on blog posts for the remainder of our trip.
Oct 16 was our last full day in Sevilla. Tomorrow morning we’ll get up, get everyone dressed and fed, and take a train to Madrid. We still hadn’t seen ...
We started the day with a guided walking tour of the old part of Sevilla. The tour began in the commercial district, and ended up in the Barrio de Santa Cruz (the former Jewish ghetto and now a well preserved and exclusive historic neighborhood). We weren’t sure how we ...
We were a little intimidated about braving Alcazar (the royal palace) with the kids. The site is huge and it’s the first really serious tourist attraction we’ve taken them to. It turns out that we shouldn’t have worried. The building had so much beautiful detail, that the ...
We flew from Barcelona to Sevilla (Seville) today. We flew on ClickAir, Iberia’s low cost carrier, and tickets were just $29 each! The flight was uneventful, but it struck me (again) just how inconvenient air travel has become. Though our flight was less than 1 ½ hours (compared to ...