Two days in Sevilla

On the first night I arrived in Sevilla I met up with an Australian couple and we walked around the city at night. We stumbled across this random block party. Too bad they weren’t playing block party. But whatever. Hundreds of people were piled into a tiny street and were drinking beer and eating olives. Even the Policia joined in… except instead of drinking beer they drove their car through the crowed to clear a path. But I can relate to that… the whole “making an entrance” thing. Anyway.

It was a good night, and THANK GOD FOR EARPLUGS! Seriously. I wear them every-night and with them I sleep like my old roommate Jaylene. She wears earplugs, and sleeps well too. They make such a difference. Honestly. They only think that’s woken me up so far were these irritating kids that came home at 5:30 last night and decided to have a loud discussion and throw their bags around the room. Sometimes I wish I carried around a dart-gun. Seriously.

I quite like walking around cities at night, although the thought of me doing it alone does not tickle my fancy. But with people it’s mad fun.

The next day I headed out with an American guy named Hudson. We went inside this cathedral thing, climbed up the tower, listened to the bells toll twelve. I pretended I was a peasant and begged for bread. Ok fine, I didn’t. But I did pretend I was still a student so I only had to pay 2 Euros! Suh weet!

We also headed to this really amazing park. Insects buzzing sounded like a river in the trees. It honestly looked like Jurassic Park. So obviously I loved it.

We spent a few hours walking around and ended up at this old, abandoned expo/world fair kind of thing. It was overgrown, run down, collapsed. Pavillion of the Future or something like that. It was seriously like walking on to the set of a zombie movie: 28 years later. The thing must have been built in the 80s. There was this escalator all overgrown with grass that went up to a monorail station in the middle of nowhere: no connecting tracks, all the windows were broken, the tiles were bent up like desert sand. It was one of the coolest places I have ever seen. When I make my first zombie movie, I am going to film it there. Dibs on the name “28 years later”.

That night I went on a tapas-tour and flamencos show. The food was good and the entertainment was free.

I love Sevilla. I can’t wait until Lisbon.