Seville, Spain

We headed to the beach at Monte Gordo this morning and then decided we were so close to Spain we should just keep going. Of course we had no map and no real idea where we were headed, but we had the next best thing…DAD! Knowing it was only 6:30am at home we figured we had a limited choice of who we could bother and dad was sure to be up and on-line. Sure enough he was able to check the mapping website and give us the info we needed. The kids really wanted to go to Gibralter and see the Barbary Apes but we decided it was a bit too far. So after a little time at the beach, we headed into Seville. It is Semana Santa and the Holy week celebrations are really cool. A little disturbing at first, but quite moving. Despite 6 years since our last visit to Seville, we were able to find our way around pretty well. We went right back to a restaurant we had previously eaten in and found the same little internet café and were able to get on-line…finally. We had a great time just wandering around and checking out the different parades of hooded penitents and religious floats. We finally headed back to Portugal in time for another midnight arrival “home.”