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It is unbelievably hot here. Certainly not the hottest place I’ve been, but at 39 degrees too much to stay out in the sun for long.
We had to come here by bus, unfortunately, as the Portuguese and Spanish governments haven’t yet got their acts in order as far as building a cross-border train line is concerned.
That would have been OK if the whole journey hadn’t consisted of a three hour lurching session as the body of the bus continually fought against the engine to go in the opposite direction. Oh, and the radio, which was on VERY LOUD. That wasn’t such a problem when we were still in Portugal and it was tuned to a station, but as we crossed the border it faded out of range to be replaced by what sounded like a very angry blender for the remainder of the journey.
I don’t think I’ll be sad to leave Seville when we take the train to Madrid tomorrow afternoon. We have done Alcazar (and I have that stupid Murder in the Discotheque song going around my head, and are currently sat outside the huge tobacco factory where the opera Carmen is set (and how nice it is to have a proper keyboard, rather than having to blog by PDA and stylus, as I did for the last entry).
That seems to be pretty much all the city has to offer, though, with the other main occupation being dodging the flies and the sun.
Everything was shut last night as we headed out to find dinner. Admittedly it was midnight, but this is Spain where they’re supposed to be open-minded enough to have sensible licensing hours, not Britain where a hangover from the Second World War means we’re still all supposed to be tucked up in bed by 11pm (the 11pm closing time was brought in to ensure that workers in the munitions factories weren’t hung over and half asleep when handling ball bearings and explosives the next day).
It’s been fun here, but I’m hoping Madrid will offer more.
I like the cool upside down punctuction on this keyboard
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