Seville, Spain

Hi folks, Matt here.

We had a wonderful time in Seville, what a city. Apparantly the hottest city in Europe, but luckily for us it stayed below 30 degrees...just. When we arrived in the car it was pretty funny, we took a wrong turn into the narrow one way maze roads of the city. After settling in to our room we realised that not many shops or bars/restaurants were open. We wandered around for a bit and found a nice bar to watch the Barcelona v Chelsea match. After talking to some gents on business here who come from Madrid they explained to us that it was actually a week festival for residents of Seville. They also didn't have prior knowledge of this and that's why they were doing 'business' at the pub. Apparantly Sevillians were allowed this day off as everyone was out drinking the night before, cool! Many of the local ladies and young girls were dressed up in their Flamenco dresses and it was quite colourful and interesting to see.

Exploring the city by day was really fun and there is a lot to see here, including the Cathedral, the Alcazar, the Bullring, the river and many other historical sights. Here is a snapshot of a few of the places we saw...

*Plaza de Espana

*The Cathedral
*The lovely park in the city

28-30 April 2009

Torremolinos, Spain

Heya Guys

Just a quick one this time around to let you know that we had some stuff nicked from our hotel room - One of our cameras and a few camera accessories, watches and an ipod. Gutted! And so hard to organise when you don´t speak Spanish! Luckily I had taken our passports out of the camera bag! and a slight silver lining is that it happen at the beginning of the trip and we did not loose any more photos!

The main reason for me telling you this is because along with the camera went our memory sticks and cards (so yeah we lost a few awesome photos we had of Scotland and York before we left) and the cables for the small camera we have left - this means that we will not be able to upload photos yet on the blog.
I will put some photos on from my phone though so that you can still get a good idea.

Not much really to say about Torremolinos - very touristy and the beaches are covered in restuarants and loungers that you pay top sit on for the day. Nothing like NZ beaches!
We did have dinner out one night and had Paella which was so yummy!!

Here is to good luck for the rest of our trip!

xxx