Day The Last

This is our last day in Spain. Only two things to do: 1. Sevilla Cathedral, the third largest church in Europe and 2. The Casa de Pilatos, supposedly a 15th century house patterned to be a copy of Pontus Pilate’s house in Jerusalem(?). It was beautiful beyond description. Included was a guided tour. Elspeth, remember Elspeth in Granada? She said we had to go there. Without her suggestion we would not have known about it. Sevilla Cathedral is magnificent. It is the church of the trip, to be sure - Spectacular beyond description. I climbed up 135 feet to the central nave of the Giralda Tower for an amazing view of the city and environs.

Dinner was at Christina’s restaurant again. In the past several years the meals in Europe have been disappointing. I mean meals that were not cheap, unlike the kind it seems we are always having. This meal was the best I have had in Europe for a long time. The meat, giant pieces beef and pork with peppers and onion chunks, served on a vertical skewer was tender and succulent with two flavorful sauces, potatoes and rice. For $25 the value was there also. After dinner Christina took us to the adjoining hotel to show us the beautiful patio area courtyard.

I suggested to Ann that since I had no souvenirs from this trip perhaps I could bring my beautiful Sevilla senorita, Christina, home. I think the look really said more than words. I guess no souvenir for Bob.

About Spain:

I thoroughly enjoyed the time in Spain. Being a geek concerning medieval and early renaissance history of Europe, Spain was a new area for me that I knew very little about. Ferdinand and Isabella just scratch the surface. What I knew about the Phoenicians, Romans, then Visigoths and Moors and finally the Christian Kings, Franco and Spain’s new freedom in the EU was woefully lacking to the point of embarrassing. The vast knowledge I gained in this time frame of the history of Iberia made the trip wonderfully enlightening.