It is almost 3am but I really wanted to post a review of the first city of my Andalusia trip before I go to bed. I was busy last night and today sorting through and uploading pictures. Maybe a lame way to spend my last day in Barcelona, but I think I needed the rest before this very stressful weekend. My friend Anna came by tonight for a short while which was nice. But I will hopefully be able to visit her in Vienna sometime this summer, so I think we will see each other again soon. And tomorrow morning I am going to have coffee with Clara.

I am kind of melancholy about leaving - I am so excited to go back home to Munich and see all my friends, but I am sad at the same time about the city and friends I am leaving behind. I do think I will stay in touch with some friends and probably see them again [Europe is not that big, especially thanks to cheap airlines] and I think I will definitely come back to Barcelona soon. There are still many places I want to see, and I have really come to love this city in the past year. It’s such a vibrant place, I don’t think coming back here could ever be boring, no matter how long I have lived here. Maybe that is why I don’t really feel the need to say goodbye. Or maybe I am just in denial and trying to make it easier for me not to think about it too much.

Anyway, on to Sevilla. Sevilla was really beautiful, and probably my favorite city out of the entire trip. I definitely took the most pictures there. It is so weird, it has not even been two weeks since I went there, yet it already seems so distant because my mind is filled with more recent memories from all the other cities. I had already posted a few pictures while I was in Sevilla, so here are a bunch more. I think it goes without saying that this [along with the following ones] will be a very image-heavy post but I hope you will enjoy looking at them.

The first day, all I did was a short walk around the neighborhood of the hostel and a tapas tour and a flamenco show that the hostel offered.

The next day, I went to visit the Alcázar, which is the castle of the city [every city I visited had one], and by the way, the one in Sevilla was the most beautiful besides the Alhambra [castle of castles] of course. I love the Moorish architecture that is so present everywhere in Andalusia. The details are so beautiful.

I also loved the gardens of the Alcázaba in Seville. You’d never know from looking at these pictures how dry Andalusia is.

Then I visited the cathedral, which was quite beautiful too. I went up the Giralda, the tower and had a nice view over the city.

That night I went running while it was still quite warm outside, it was a good run along a beautiful route, and I decided to walk the same route the next night, but that time with my camera.

Monday morning, I went to and did a tour of the Plaza de Toros, the bullring. There had been a bullfight the day before, but I didn’t know this until the evening, though I don’t think I would have gone. Bullfighting seems very cruel to me, and it is not something I want to support.

[You can see a picture of the ring without me in the picture here.]

I then walked past the Torre de Oro and the University to the Plaza España and from there through the Parque María Luisa.

I walked back through the Barrio de Santa Cruz which was a beautiful part of Sevilla. There I came across this sleeping beauty.

Quite a long day and lots of walking, but as I mentioned, I ventured out again after the sun went down to take some pictures of Sevilla at nighttime.

That was the last day in Sevilla; on Tuesday I took a bus around noon to get to Córdoba.

To be continued …

[Many more photos can be found on Flickr.]

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