Saturday, March 3, 2007

Seville continued...Friday 3-2-07

Well, we had to be out of our apartment in Sevilla pretty early, and we also had to clean, which was kind of annoying. Since we decided to stay in Sevilla for a 4th night, we had to find another hostal, which was very easy and also cheaper than the apartment. We then headed out to Italica.

Italica is about 15 min outside the city, and is a Roman city that was built around 206 BC. There was a huge Roman amphitheater which seats 28,000, some residential areas, and multiple baths. As cool and as old as it was, I think we definitely spent much more time there than was necessary.

After Italica we headed to Aracena, which is about 45 min away and has pretty much nothing except some tourist shops and some very cool grutas (caves). So we forked out 7 euros and went on a 45 min tour of underground caves. Once again, pictures were prohibited, but, once again, I snuck some anyway. These caves were much better than any I´ve seen before, so it was a good use of our dinero.

Friday night Mia and Dan wanted to go a paelladora, a restaraunt which supposedly specializes on paella. So Dan and Jamie and I went to a different restaraunt and got the menu del dia (these are super popular in Spain, and usually consist of a large quantity of moderately delicious food). I really enjoyed just sitting around and chatting at the table, without the stress of planning something else to do.

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