We decide to check out El Jardin a snack bar/cafe in our hotel. They serve a basic breakfast. We both decide to order what's called the center breakfast. This is coffee or tea, small orange juice, toast. You can order 1 or 2 slices of toast. We order the full or 2 slices of toast. Richard gets tea and I get coffee. It's a light breakfast but is fine. Cost €6.30.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. 1612. Architect Juan de Oriedo. Cost €1.50 per person. Built around patios of flowers, trees, tile work. Collection of Spanish art and sculpture from medieval to modern. Focus on Sevilla artists. Religious art. Zurbaran, Murillo, Velazquez-1600s. Wanted to make the spiritual world tangible. Monks with wrinkled faces, balding saints. Rooms in chronological order. Medieval altarpieces. Paintings of popular saints. Murillo's "Immaculatas". This is a large museum and deserves more time than I have. We spend 1 hour 15 minutes here and I could have easily spent another hour here as there's so much to see. Outside are local artists selling their paintings. Some were quite good.
Puente de Isabel II/Triana Bridge. This bridge takes you to the area known as Triana. My original plan was to walk across and explore this area but Richard isn't feeling well. Maybe it's the heat?? He waits while I walk to the half way point. This is a good area to buy ceramic tiles. I'm disappointed that I don't get to wander into this area.
Plaza de Toros/Bullring. Guided tour with audioguide. Cost €5.00 each. Tour last around 45 minutes. Outside the bullring is the statue of Condesa de Barcelona on horseback. Posters of bull fights on the walls where you enter. Paintings of matadors. Museum-matador outfits, statues, replica of the bullring, capes,. Chapel where matadors pray before going into the bullring. Finally we enter the bullring itself. Empty. Much larger than I thought it would be. Outside are some statues of matadors-Pepe Luis Vazquez and Curro Romero-born Francisco Romero Lopez. Retired after 42 years bullfighting-one of the longest bullfighting careers in Spain.
Cruceros Torre del Oro/Guadalquivir River boat tour. I'm thinking a boat tour may help Richard feel better as he won't be walking around in the heat and glaring sun. Usually it's me that gets sick. Right across the street near the Torro del Oro/Gold Tower (Naval Museum inside) are boats that offer tours on the Guadalquivir River. Cost $37.16 for the 2 of us-senior rate. I was given a pamphlet with descriptions of what we'd see. Lots of bridges, the bullring, the Golden Tower.... Boats leave every 30 minutes. Our boat is the Luna del Guadalquivir. There is audio commentary. This is the route/sights I think we saw in order. First the bridge-Puente de San Telmo. After that on the left the Palacio de San Telmo. Ahead the bridge-Puente de los Remedios. On the left the Pabellon de Argentina. Ahead the bridge-Puente de las Delicias. Beyond that the bridge-Puente del V Centenario. The boat turns around at the Puente de las Delicias. I think that bridge is too low to cruise under it. Going the other way the Remedies again, Triana Bridge, the Barrio de Triana, some Expo 1992 sights. The bridge-Puente de la Barqueta Expo '92. The bridge-Puente del Alamillo Expo '92. I love bridges so this boat ride was great for me. It also was nice to just sit and relax and enjoy the sights. Too bad Richard isn't feeling any better. He thinks he needs to return to the hotel and lie down-take a nap. Taxi back to the hotel by 4:00 PM. Richard takes a nap while I head to the pool which is really crowded! I spent about 1 1/2 hours at the pool. Back in the room Richard does not want to go to dinner so I'm on my own. 😞 The reception staff tells me there's a place I can walk to from the hotel so that's where I'll go.
Dinner-La Bambina Tratoria Pizzeria. About 10-15 minute walk. I arrive at 8:15 PM only to find out dinner doesn't start until 8:30 PM which is fine. Also the A/C isn't working! This is a small inside/outside place. Does a lot of pizza take out and delivery by a guy on a bike. I'm hot, tired, and hungry so despite no A/C on this hot evening I just don't feel like finding another place for dinner. Luckily I can get a drink right now and I order a glass of tinto de verano. There's also a service charge of €.80 per person to eat at a table. For my dinner I have decided to order the tapa or small portion of the lasana de ternera/lasgna with meat I think. I get lots of bread like mini squares. My lasagna is piping hot and very good. The portion size is just right. For dessert I want the lemon sorbet which I think is going to be like a scoop of lemon sorbet ice cream. Wrong. It's a liquid in a glass which was disappointing. Cost of dinner without tip €11.20. That sorbet which was so different than I thought it would be was €4.00 so dinner would have been very cheap if I hadn't ordered that. Slow walk back to the hotel. Richard still ill so that is a real bummer. Having severe diarrhea and stomach pain. Maybe food poisoning?? But we shared food at dinner last night. Maybe the undercooked bacon from yesterday's breakfast? Hope he feels better tomorrow.
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| Our breakfast |
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| Yummy looking donuts |
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. 1612. Architect Juan de Oriedo. Cost €1.50 per person. Built around patios of flowers, trees, tile work. Collection of Spanish art and sculpture from medieval to modern. Focus on Sevilla artists. Religious art. Zurbaran, Murillo, Velazquez-1600s. Wanted to make the spiritual world tangible. Monks with wrinkled faces, balding saints. Rooms in chronological order. Medieval altarpieces. Paintings of popular saints. Murillo's "Immaculatas". This is a large museum and deserves more time than I have. We spend 1 hour 15 minutes here and I could have easily spent another hour here as there's so much to see. Outside are local artists selling their paintings. Some were quite good.
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| Pedro Millan-Cristo atado a la columna |
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| Alonso Vazquez-San Pedro Nolasco dispidiendose de Jaime I el Conquistador (1601) |
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| Alonso Vazquez-Sagrada Cena (1588) |
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| Murillo |
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| Ceiling |
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| Ceiling detail |
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| Juan De Valdes Leal |
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| Francisco Zurbaran-La Virgen de las Cuevas (hacia 1655) |
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| Jose Villegas Cordero-La muerte del maestro (hacia 1913) |
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| Entrance hall with tiled panels from sevillian convents and monasteries that were seized by the State (16th-17th c.) |
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| Artists selling their works outside the museum |
Puente de Isabel II/Triana Bridge. This bridge takes you to the area known as Triana. My original plan was to walk across and explore this area but Richard isn't feeling well. Maybe it's the heat?? He waits while I walk to the half way point. This is a good area to buy ceramic tiles. I'm disappointed that I don't get to wander into this area.
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| Looking across the river to Barrio Triana |
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| Light on Triana Bridge |
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| Walking across the Triana Bridge |
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| View of the Triana Bridge |
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Plaza de Toros/Bullring. Guided tour with audioguide. Cost €5.00 each. Tour last around 45 minutes. Outside the bullring is the statue of Condesa de Barcelona on horseback. Posters of bull fights on the walls where you enter. Paintings of matadors. Museum-matador outfits, statues, replica of the bullring, capes,. Chapel where matadors pray before going into the bullring. Finally we enter the bullring itself. Empty. Much larger than I thought it would be. Outside are some statues of matadors-Pepe Luis Vazquez and Curro Romero-born Francisco Romero Lopez. Retired after 42 years bullfighting-one of the longest bullfighting careers in Spain.
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| Statue of the Condesa de Barcelona |
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| Pedro Romero |
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| Pepe Illo |
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| Chapel |
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| In the arena |
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| Have to exit now; not allowed to go up into the seating area |
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| Most people have left |
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| Exit gate |
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| Pepe Luis Vazquez |
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| Curro Romero |
Cruceros Torre del Oro/Guadalquivir River boat tour. I'm thinking a boat tour may help Richard feel better as he won't be walking around in the heat and glaring sun. Usually it's me that gets sick. Right across the street near the Torro del Oro/Gold Tower (Naval Museum inside) are boats that offer tours on the Guadalquivir River. Cost $37.16 for the 2 of us-senior rate. I was given a pamphlet with descriptions of what we'd see. Lots of bridges, the bullring, the Golden Tower.... Boats leave every 30 minutes. Our boat is the Luna del Guadalquivir. There is audio commentary. This is the route/sights I think we saw in order. First the bridge-Puente de San Telmo. After that on the left the Palacio de San Telmo. Ahead the bridge-Puente de los Remedios. On the left the Pabellon de Argentina. Ahead the bridge-Puente de las Delicias. Beyond that the bridge-Puente del V Centenario. The boat turns around at the Puente de las Delicias. I think that bridge is too low to cruise under it. Going the other way the Remedies again, Triana Bridge, the Barrio de Triana, some Expo 1992 sights. The bridge-Puente de la Barqueta Expo '92. The bridge-Puente del Alamillo Expo '92. I love bridges so this boat ride was great for me. It also was nice to just sit and relax and enjoy the sights. Too bad Richard isn't feeling any better. He thinks he needs to return to the hotel and lie down-take a nap. Taxi back to the hotel by 4:00 PM. Richard takes a nap while I head to the pool which is really crowded! I spent about 1 1/2 hours at the pool. Back in the room Richard does not want to go to dinner so I'm on my own. 😞 The reception staff tells me there's a place I can walk to from the hotel so that's where I'll go.
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| Horse and carriage rides |
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| Torre del Oro/Gold Tower-Naval Museum inside |
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| Where you buy tickets for the boat ride-Cruceros |
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| Bridge-Puente de San Telmo |
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| Palacio de San Telmo |
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| Bridge-Puente de los Remedios |
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| Pabellon de Argentina |
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| Bridge-Puente de las Delicias |
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| Just a glimpse of the bridge Puente del y Centenario after the Delicias |
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| Back to the bridge-Puente de los Remedios |
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| Past another boat |
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| Heading towards the bridge-Puente de Isabel II/Triana Bridge/ |
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| Bridge-Puente de la Barqueta, Expo '92 |
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| Bridge-Puente del Alamillo, Expo '92 |
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| Turned around at this point to return to the dock |
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| Back under the Barqueta |
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| Barrio Triana |
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| Getting ready to dock |
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| Back to where we started |
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| Our boat |
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| Taxi back to the hotel-statue of El Cid |
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| Cooling off and relaxing at the hotel pool |
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| Very crowded! |
Dinner-La Bambina Tratoria Pizzeria. About 10-15 minute walk. I arrive at 8:15 PM only to find out dinner doesn't start until 8:30 PM which is fine. Also the A/C isn't working! This is a small inside/outside place. Does a lot of pizza take out and delivery by a guy on a bike. I'm hot, tired, and hungry so despite no A/C on this hot evening I just don't feel like finding another place for dinner. Luckily I can get a drink right now and I order a glass of tinto de verano. There's also a service charge of €.80 per person to eat at a table. For my dinner I have decided to order the tapa or small portion of the lasana de ternera/lasgna with meat I think. I get lots of bread like mini squares. My lasagna is piping hot and very good. The portion size is just right. For dessert I want the lemon sorbet which I think is going to be like a scoop of lemon sorbet ice cream. Wrong. It's a liquid in a glass which was disappointing. Cost of dinner without tip €11.20. That sorbet which was so different than I thought it would be was €4.00 so dinner would have been very cheap if I hadn't ordered that. Slow walk back to the hotel. Richard still ill so that is a real bummer. Having severe diarrhea and stomach pain. Maybe food poisoning?? But we shared food at dinner last night. Maybe the undercooked bacon from yesterday's breakfast? Hope he feels better tomorrow.
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| A few tables outside |
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| Menu |
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| Over 30 different pizzas |
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| Tinto de Verano |
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| Outside seating |
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| Bread bites |
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| My tapa size lasagna was enough for me and had lots of meat, green peppers, sauce, and cheese on top |
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| Making pizza |
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| My lemon sorbet was not what I expected |
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| Walking back to the hotel |
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| Past the Jardines de la Buharia |
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| Looking back |
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| Restaurant at the hotel that I should have checked out; open for lunch and dinner |
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| Where we had breakfast |
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| This is how hot it still is at 9:43 PM |
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| Checking out the jacuzzi on floor -1 |
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| Sauna |
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| Exercise room |
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| Information in the elevator |
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| View from our room at night |
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