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edenfallingSuccess! We are in Spain, in Sevilla, and in Vicky's apartment... which is soon NOT to be her apartment, as she's arranged a new place with a new roommate who is actually one of her friends rather than a chance acquaintance.
Getting here was a bit of an adventure.
Suffice it to say that first there was no rental car at the Madrid airport, so the company (Alamo/National/Atesa) sent us to a garage, via taxi, which we had to pay for ourselves. The garage had no idea what to make of us, but finally (after an hour and a half) managed to find a car. Which was not the automatic transmission we'd been promised (and had reserved TWO MONTHS AGO), but a manual transmission. Which my parents barely remember how to drive. So that was fun!
We got to Sevilla more or less without trouble. Getting into the right PART of Sevilla... that's a lot harder, when Vicky lives within the old city walls, which are a maze of tiny one-way streets with hard-to-find street names that looks like they really ought to be alleys that you can hardly walk down, let alone drive a car through. That lost us another hour and a half.
But we finally arrived, whereupon Vicky fed us beef stew, garlic bread, and mixed greens salad, on the theory (as she said) that after a long and hard day of travel, the last thing we'd want to do was go out to a restaurant and have to wonder what on earth we were dealing with when trying to read a menu. Hence the plain American-style meal.
And now she and Dad are moving the car to a parking garage (at least, in theory they are doing that; in practice they may be lost, or the garage may be closed, or god knows what all else may have gone wrong!), while I am typing this and then heading to bed.
(It is very difficult to sleep on a plane when you have to keep clenching your throat and concentrating on NOT COUGHING. I dozed for a couple hours, and dozed another couple hours in the car, but that's no substitute for proper sleep. I am tired like you would not believe.
And on that note, good night!)
Getting here was a bit of an adventure.
Suffice it to say that first there was no rental car at the Madrid airport, so the company (Alamo/National/Atesa) sent us to a garage, via taxi, which we had to pay for ourselves. The garage had no idea what to make of us, but finally (after an hour and a half) managed to find a car. Which was not the automatic transmission we'd been promised (and had reserved TWO MONTHS AGO), but a manual transmission. Which my parents barely remember how to drive. So that was fun!
We got to Sevilla more or less without trouble. Getting into the right PART of Sevilla... that's a lot harder, when Vicky lives within the old city walls, which are a maze of tiny one-way streets with hard-to-find street names that looks like they really ought to be alleys that you can hardly walk down, let alone drive a car through. That lost us another hour and a half.
But we finally arrived, whereupon Vicky fed us beef stew, garlic bread, and mixed greens salad, on the theory (as she said) that after a long and hard day of travel, the last thing we'd want to do was go out to a restaurant and have to wonder what on earth we were dealing with when trying to read a menu. Hence the plain American-style meal.
And now she and Dad are moving the car to a parking garage (at least, in theory they are doing that; in practice they may be lost, or the garage may be closed, or god knows what all else may have gone wrong!), while I am typing this and then heading to bed.
(It is very difficult to sleep on a plane when you have to keep clenching your throat and concentrating on NOT COUGHING. I dozed for a couple hours, and dozed another couple hours in the car, but that's no substitute for proper sleep. I am tired like you would not believe.
And on that note, good night!)
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Date: 2010-12-22 12:22 am (UTC)I wonder if you're near where I stayed when I was there. My hotel was literally across the street from a large section of the old Roman walls that used to surround the city. You've just made me browse my own photos of Seville and I kind of envy you at the moment. :-)
Hopefully the rest of your stay (and your health!) will be better.
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Date: 2010-12-23 09:44 pm (UTC)Today was not rainy at all, though it was extremely windy. :-)