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It was an early morning wake up as we have a eight hour long excursion.

We ordered room service for breakfast.

I tried to get some money sent to one of our roofing contractors. It proved to be more of a challenge than I hoped it would be. I will have to contact the bank after our tour today.

We headed down to the Star Theater a little after 7 AM. I was distracted with the frustration with the bank this morning and forgot my stateroom key card so I had to run back to the room.

When we approached the Star Theater, Krystal was just coming down the stairs and Jenni was waiting outside the theater so our delayed arrival due to me forgetting my key card ended up creating perfect timing for us all to get on the same bus.

After the usual sound check, we departed through a beautiful port area and across a suspension bridge just as the sun was rising.

As we were driving by picturesque rolling farmland dotted with wind turbines, I worked on this blog. Meanwhile, Bob sent a text to Rob. Technology is amazing until it isn't -like this morning's fiasco.

On the almost 2 hour drive to Seville, the "guide" on the bus didn't give us any information regarding the history of Seville or Spain.

We arrived at Seville and we picked up a local guide. We made a short drive to Plaza Espanol. I had to google the Plaza Espanol because our guide gave us a brief description on the Plaza but no contextual history. The Plaza was completed in 1929 and took 15 years to complete. It was built to show Spain embracing the Americas.

We next drove to Casa de Pilatos.

According to Wikipedia:
The House of Pilate is a palace located in the Spanish city of Seville , in Andalusia , belonging to the House of Medinaceli . It constitutes one of the most emblematic buildings of Andalusian civil architecture of the 16th century and presents a combination of Italian Renaissance and Spanish Mudejar styles, the result of the different interventions that occurred, from the last third of the 15th century to the 17th century .

Portions of the Game of Thrones were filmed at the Casa de Pilatos. We have not watched Game of Thrones.

I had to once again Google Casa de Pilatos. The guide must have thought that we all had researched the history of Spain. We felt like we were dropped into a college course half way through the term.

After leaving the Casa de Pilatos, we walked down absolutely beautiful streets until we reached the Cathedral.

We walked around the Cathedral area and in the courtyard of the Royal Palace.

Next we were given freetime to have lunch.

Dale, Jenni, Bob and I found a quaint restaurant and had lunch.

We then met our group, walked to the bus, and drove back to the ship.

Our impression of Seville is that it is a beautiful city. We just wish that we had a different tour and guide. We would have loved to go inside the cathedral but the line was too long. The guide was really lacking. Czytaj więcej