We spent three months in Sevilla back in 2005. It’s always been one of our favorite cities, so we were really curious to see if it’s changed a lot.
One new thing in the last 20 years, are the high speed trains. It only took two hours to get there from Madrid.
The city is still beautiful.
This is the Marriott were staying in. We are a little out of the main part of town in a tradition residencial neighborhood.
It was a little too traditional at 5:30 on a Saturday. We didn’t eat lunch on the train so were starving. There were all these cute restaurants. But they all stopped serving food from 5:00 to 8:00.
This was us amused after the first two restaurants said no. After all the restaurants said no without exception I was no longer amused. The only places serving food were tourist restaurants in the center of town 30 minutes by Uber. Or Burger King. I’ll admit, my Whopper was delicious.
After I was no longer hangry, we went to our old neighborhood. It was a little hard to find but after consulting pictures, we took 20 years ago and Jeff’s excellent memory for street names we found our old apartment.
It is the dark orange building. There was no graffiti on the garage back then.
We tried to recreate this photo of Jeff in front of the front door.
Older but looking less confused. I think back then Jeff didnt realize I was going to take a photo of every door I saw. It was a new obsession back then. Now he’s used to it.
While we were walking around there was a crowd outside this little building. It had always been closed 20 years ago, but I had loved the tiles on either side of the for. I’m not sure if it was because it’s Lent or what but the door was open. Inside, were two statues that looked like the tiles. It was like a holy statue storage locker.
We also went into a church where you can go behind the altar and touch the foot of the “Señor de Sevilla” statue. There was a really long line so only I went. Jeff waited in front. If you zoom in you can see me on the left touching the foot.
At this point my phone battery died which was probably a good thing or I would have used up all my phone storage with door photos.