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| After a little hiccup on the last leg of her journey (plane troubles :/ ) Carmen made it! :) |
For local stuff we've shown her around Chipiona and a little SanLucar and a dinner out in Rota.
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| This is the beautiful chapel on the beach on Chipiona |
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| They had pony rides in the square in Chipiona and since our original plans to watch the parade (it was a festival day) fell through, we let them ride the pony instead :) |
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| Ice cream time! we eat a lot of ice cream.... ;) |
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| remember the Barbie display with the Feria dresses? Well we walked by it in Rota and they had a beach scene... |
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| which of course included a topless one....oh Europe... :/ |
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| dinner with some church friends :) |
Seville is amazing and we all enjoyed our visit there. We got to see a couple places we didn't on our first visit there so that was nice. It's such a cool town and only an hour away so that's always a plus!
Our first stop was the Cathedral, which had a super long line last time so we didn't even attempt to go. The line was long this time too but luckily moved quickly. Inside you just wandered around looking at all the splendor and awesomeness of the huge building. According to Wikipedia, it is the largest Gothic Cathedral and third largest church in the world. It's amazing. The details put into it are just so crazy awesome...kind of mind boggling to think of the workmanship and craftmanship they had to build it! Beautiful... Inside was amazing too. I loved the arches and beautiful little chapels/altars. The treasure rooms were also amazing...beautiful gold and silver pieces and the artwork the had was awesome too. They also had quite a few tombs...including Christopher Columbus.
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| we hit up Starbuck's before we walked around :) |
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| Entering the Catheral! |
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| This place is so amazing |
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| stained glass windows.... |
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| tombs... |
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| I love the arched ceilings...they're SO TALL |
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| the altars and chapels all throughout were so amazing |
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| the organ |
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| more amazing ceilings |
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| treasure room! |
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| Andrew was so excited for the treasure ;) |
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| and the most intricate/detailed/amazing altar we saw...it was crazy |
One of our favorite parts was the tower...which was quite a feat pushing a stroller up (it was ramps all the way up except the last flight of stairs). But the views were spectacular and so worth it!
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| through one of the windows going up |
Next we ate lunch at a little cafe next to the Cathedral where Carmen enjoyed some disgusting looking squid....although she liked it so I guess that's good ;)
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| yuck... |
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| Lizzie ate a piece too |
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| we stopped for a minute to watch some Flamenco dancers |
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| someone was getting cranky/tired |
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| not even ice cream made her happy |
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| she finally conked out though |
After lunch we went to the Plaza de Espana which was also amazing! I loved it there....it's a beautiful open plaza with this awesome building wrapping around half of it. There's tons of beautiful tile work EVERYWHERE. There's stairs and bridges over this little waterway (where Mark took the older two kids on a little boat ride on it which they had lots of fun). Then the whole arch of the building is lined with benches from every Province in Spain which is pretty cool. We found the province we live in (Cadiz) and the province my mom's ancestors is from (Almeria).
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| I love the bridges! |
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| and all the painted details on the tile...so pretty |
On Labor Day we went to a little town nearby (a white village) called Vejer de la Frontera...I have a lot of people recommend it because it is the epitome of a white Spanish village and they all love to go to this Moroccan restaurant there. It's just shy of an hour away so it was a nice little day trip to do. The town was super cute...set on a hill so it was quite a good day's exercise hiking around the hilly streets. We had lunch at the Moroccan restaurant, which was good, but not as splendid as everyone was saying...it's not my favorite cuisine though so that's probably why :) It was fun to go though and we enjoyed the town and the views from it.
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| ready for our little drive :) |
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| it was such a pretty day! |
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| the Plaza de Espana in Vejer ;) |
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| beautiful white village! |
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| the views were beautiful |
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| I loved the tiles here |
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| the little tile clock I got in Vejer with the tiled name I got in La Rambla |
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