After three flights and over 24 hours of travel with no sleep, we finally made it to Sevilla. Unfortunately, our baggage did not, and we´re still waiting for it to show up...
After arriving in London and discovering that we did not have our bags, we decided to go into London for the day before our afternoon flight to Sevilla. We wandered around Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, and Green Park, where we saw a huge parade of bands (marching bands and bands on horses) and the British military, who were apparently practicing for the celebration of the Queen´s anniversary next week.
Seeing all of the different, colorful uniforms and the funny hats was quite amusing. I´ve also never seen people playing instruments astride horses, much less a band of 100 of them. After this exciting event, we flew to Sevilla.We wandered around Sevilla for almost an hour before finding our hostel, but we got a nice tour of the city.Our hostel is fairly quiet and comfortable, and we were very glad to sleep. This morning, we were awoken by a huge parade passing under our window. There were people leading the procession with flags, then others carrying huge candles that were as tall as they, then a float with the virgin Mary that was probably carried by at least 25 people, then the priest and a little girl who was celebrating her first communion, followed by little boys with incense censers, lots of family and friends, a 20-man choir, and a 75-person brass and percussion marching band. Luckily we got some video of them. It was quite amazing to hear all of those brass wailing away in the small streets. I didn´t know that the first communion was such a huge deal, but it was quite a site.
After this interesting procession, we toured the Alcazar, which is an old castle, where Columbus was received and honored after his voyage to the New World. It had a huge garden, which was very pretty. Besides the tour, we had a relaxing day wandering around the city and seeing all of the beautiful buildings and getting sunburnt, since our sun screen was obviously in our bags... Sevilla is quite pretty, with narrow, winding streets and sunny plazas. It´s very exciting to finally be here!
It doesn´t look like I can put my pictures on to this computer, but hopefully somewhere on the trip we´ll be able to. Hope you all are doing well! We´d love to hear from you!
