A Memorable Trip to Seville

June 6-8th, 2022

For class we took a three day trip to Seville to see some churches, Plaza de España, an aristocrat house, and an art museum. It was very HOT in Seville. The most important thing I learned from this trip is to drink more water.

After an early morning train ride and muffins for breakfast from Luis, we were ready to start our adventure. We checked into our hotel and it was super cool, my first hotel stop in Spain. After we checked in and unpacked our suitcases we met in the lobby to head for a walking tour.

Seville was very pretty. I think it kind of looks the same as Madrid architecture wise. The colors of Seville are a yellowish gold which represents the sand in the bullfighting rings.

Touring the City

The Setas de Seville is the biggest wooden structure in Europe. It’s meant to draw people to that area and be a viewing point to see the city.

Setas de Seville

After we took a stroll through the tight streets (which usually had a distinct smell of dog pee), we headed to get some lunch as a group! I was craving some eggs so I had a bowl of eggs with chorizo, sausage, and potatoes.

Yummy eggs!

After we argued about whether to walk 30 minutes to the hotel or bus, we finally decided to walk. I was super excited to go to the hotel pool and tan because I had not been swimming all summer! The view from the roof top pool was absolutely beautiful. You could see all of the buildings and the tall churches. I was so excited to get some sun and read. How much better can sunbathing in Spain get??

The view from the pool

Plaza de España

Our next stop was Plaza de España! This was a cool little area with a little river that people could row in. There was even a scene from Star Wars filmed there. I thought this area was the prettiest part of Seville that we saw.

María Luisa Park

There was a little garden area near the plaza called María Luisa Park. There was many pretty fountains and flowers. A lot of people were running there or just relaxing on the grass. There’s hardly any green space areas within the city, which is way different compared my home which has grass everywhere.

The Most Memorable Part of The Trip

It was time to make a stop for dinner and some of us REALLY wanted sushi (me). So we went to this cute sushi restaurant and we got to eat outside on the cobble stone. I got some really good salmon, guac, and sour cream rolls. Our waitress did nottt like us. I feel like waiters are very hit or miss on whether they like serving foreigners/tourists. Anyways, after we were about to leave, I all of a sudden felt really light headed and my vision went funky. I thought this was weird because I felt totally fine all dinner. I squatted down to see if that would make me feel better. The next thing I remember is waking up to a bunch of people in my face yelling my name. This was actually really scaring it felt like I was dreaming.

I soon realized I passed out from a heat stroke! There were many people around trying to help out, and a lady called 112 which is the same as 911 in the U.S. I’m so thankful for my friends and the Spanish that we do know so this situation wasn’t scarier than it could’ve been! The only thing I don’t want to do is take an ambulance and that is what ended up happening since I hit my head on the ground. But all was well my professor came with me and helped me translate everything I needed at the hospital. I had an EKG taken and was on the way home! I’m so thankful my friends came to wait for me outside the ER until almost 2 a.m.❤️

Luis and I in the hospital and shortly after I passed out

The next morning we did some shopping downtown. I think the shopping is relatively the same everywhere we‘ve been so far. We stopped at a restaurant quick for lunch and I had a really good chicken salad that I’ve been craving!

Yummy chicken salad!

Santa Cruz

Our next stop was to head to see some churches. We went to the Santa Cruz church, where parts of Christopher Columbus is buried! This church has a lot of character. The bottom stone in its structure is from the Romans, the next layer is from the Muslims, and the finally the top layer of the building is made by Christians. The cathedral used to be a mosque but now it is a church!

After a few churches, it was helado time! In Seville there is an Ice Cream shop that had all of us in a chokehold called La Abuela. We went there once each day because we loved it so much.

Dinner Dinner!

Wednesday night we decided to treat ourselves and have dinner some place a little nicer. We ate at a restaurant called Manolo León which is a house made into a restaurant. For my tapa I had some croquetas and for my meal I had pork loin. I‘ve been drinking only water everywhere I go because I’m scared to pass out again!

Casa de Pilatos

Our last stop was an aristocratic’s house. This man liked the luxurious style of renaissance in Italy so much that he wanted to bring that style to his home in Spain. So he changed his house to copy Italian architecture. His garden was very pretty and there were many Roman sculptures around.

Parts of the house

Our last stop was lunch at Ultramarinos. It was so nice to sit down and relax for awhile. Sometimes trying new things doesn’t always work out for me. And that’s what happened when I got apple salmorejo. I was a little scared of the green color, and it tasted just as bad. But my brioche de pringa was very good! Pringa is a Seville specialty so I had to try it.

That’s all the excitement from Seville.

Stay tuned for my trip to Barcelona!

Adios!

Morgan