I just finished lunch and now is the siesta, so I thought it would be a good time to write. Yesterday classes ended at 6 (they were shifted an hour earlier since it was Friday), so a bunch of people in the program decided to go to a movie. However, the movie didn't start until 8, so we had a couple hours to kill. And what better way to spend that time then to go get food? So, we went to 100 Montaditos, a shop that sells 100 different types of small sandwiches for 1-2 euros each. For our conversation class, we had had to buy a sandwich there, and it was really good, so Natalie, Tiffany, and I decided to go again. We weren't going to have dinner until after the movie, so a snack seemed like a good idea. Here's a picture of Natalie and Tiffany with their montaditos:
Each of those sandwiches costs about 1 euro. I've tried one of the chicken sandwiches, as well as one with salmon and cream cheese and one with melted chocolate and berry jam! I think I prefer the savory ones to the chocolate one. I foresee that this restaurant is going to be getting a lot of business from me over the course of the semester since it's right across the street from the main entrance to the university. At first, I wanted to make it my goal to try all 100 montaditos on the menu, but some of the "gourmet" ones, such as hot dog with bacon, don't sound that appealing. Maybe 50 will be my goal. My other food related goal is to try a lot of ice cream shops in the city and find which one I think is the best. I want to try a lot of tapa places too.
We then went to see Tambien la Lluvia at the Plaza Nervion, which is right next to my apartment. It was a really good but sad movie about a group of Spanish filmmakers that go to Bolivia to film a movie about the Spanish conquest of Latin America. While they're filming, many protests erupt around the country about the privatization of water. The movie blurs the line between fiction and reality at times. After the movie, I returned home, had a sandwich my senora had left out for me, and went to bed since we had to get up early in the morning.
Today, we took an excursion to Carmona, a nearby town. I normally would have been really excited for this excursion; however it conflicted with a local orienteering meet I really wanted to go to. I have no idea when the next meet is, but hopefully I'll be free then. Carmona is a really nice town, up in the hills above Sevilla, but it was really cold (and by that I mean around 40 F, which still feels cold when you aren't wearing very warm clothes). Our first stop was a necropolis outside the city, which was used between 100 BC and 400 AD.
We were even able to go down into one of the tombs.
Here's one of the main areas that had a lot of rooms going off of it.
We then went to the city itself, and walked through the old wall (the gate we walked through was la puerta de Sevilla), though the main square, and to the church. It was pretty and had nice artwork, just like most the other European churches. Here's a decoration in the courtyard of the church. This Catholic church, just like many others, was built on an old mosque (which, before that, was a church for the group that lived here before the Arabs came). Because of that, you enter into a courtyard before entering the church. The cathedral in Seville has a courtyard for the same reason.
Each of those sandwiches costs about 1 euro. I've tried one of the chicken sandwiches, as well as one with salmon and cream cheese and one with melted chocolate and berry jam! I think I prefer the savory ones to the chocolate one. I foresee that this restaurant is going to be getting a lot of business from me over the course of the semester since it's right across the street from the main entrance to the university. At first, I wanted to make it my goal to try all 100 montaditos on the menu, but some of the "gourmet" ones, such as hot dog with bacon, don't sound that appealing. Maybe 50 will be my goal. My other food related goal is to try a lot of ice cream shops in the city and find which one I think is the best. I want to try a lot of tapa places too.
We then went to see Tambien la Lluvia at the Plaza Nervion, which is right next to my apartment. It was a really good but sad movie about a group of Spanish filmmakers that go to Bolivia to film a movie about the Spanish conquest of Latin America. While they're filming, many protests erupt around the country about the privatization of water. The movie blurs the line between fiction and reality at times. After the movie, I returned home, had a sandwich my senora had left out for me, and went to bed since we had to get up early in the morning.
Today, we took an excursion to Carmona, a nearby town. I normally would have been really excited for this excursion; however it conflicted with a local orienteering meet I really wanted to go to. I have no idea when the next meet is, but hopefully I'll be free then. Carmona is a really nice town, up in the hills above Sevilla, but it was really cold (and by that I mean around 40 F, which still feels cold when you aren't wearing very warm clothes). Our first stop was a necropolis outside the city, which was used between 100 BC and 400 AD.
We were even able to go down into one of the tombs.
Here's one of the main areas that had a lot of rooms going off of it.
We then went to the city itself, and walked through the old wall (the gate we walked through was la puerta de Sevilla), though the main square, and to the church. It was pretty and had nice artwork, just like most the other European churches. Here's a decoration in the courtyard of the church. This Catholic church, just like many others, was built on an old mosque (which, before that, was a church for the group that lived here before the Arabs came). Because of that, you enter into a courtyard before entering the church. The cathedral in Seville has a courtyard for the same reason.
After that, we went to a cafe next to a churro place and ate churros, drank chocolate, and warmed up. Our last stop in Carmona was a fortress. This town was well protected geographically because it was at the top of a hill so it could see enemies coming from far away. Many foods were grown in the surrounding valleys, so the town always had enough food. This was the first time since coming to Seville that I've seen hills. The city is very flat.
On the way back, we stopped at a gate on the other side of the city, and we drove by an old Roman road as well. All of the cities here are heavily influenced by both the Romans and the Arabs (who ruled this area from about 700-1500). I love being in Europe where hundred or thousand year old buildings and art are alongside cars and other modern things!
We got home in time for lunch; however my senora wasn't home today. We had a first course of pasta with a little sausage, and our second course was meatballs. I think I prefer having both courses at once so you can eat them together if you want, but that's evidently not the way it's done here.
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