So after reading Dan/Meghan´s simple blog with pictures and no history lecture I thought I´d give you guys a break and give you some pictures. Kubic/Butler, this should be easier for you without so many words...
First things first. This is where I sleep/siesta every day. Don´t know if the bed has ever been flipped/turned/moved so I lay in a big dip right up the middle.
If you couldn´t guess, this is the living room. I´m pretty lucky because we have A/C, a 20" tv and digital cable. Sadly, we don´t use the A/C most of the time because it is so expensive and the cable went out yesterday...
This is the outside of my apartment building. If you look on the top floor, dead center of the picture, with the orange antenna and the plants on the balcony, you can see my apartment from the street/the restaurant Tribuna.
My street, Concha Espina, from the viewpoint of when I walking home from school.
This is the restaurant I mentioned earlier. It is full around 3 in the afternoon and 10-12midnight. I can always here the laughter and talking from my living room.
Avenida República Argentina; This is the main avenue that takes you to the plaza and towards the bridge to cross the river. You can barely see it but there is a Citibank on the left. I really lucked out that it is about 2 minutes from my house and that I don´t have to pay withdrawl fees...
In case you don´t know, I will be working for ALDI foods as an intern this fall and spring. If all goes well, I just may be baging groceries in this store one day. I found it on a run and it is 5 minutes from my house.
Plaza de Cuba; This is one of the large plazas in Sevilla and also the meeting location for all of us who live on my side of the river.
This is the view of the bridge I cross on the way to school, looking towards where I live (opposite direction of school).
Opposite view of the same bridge. On your left, you can see Torre de Oro (Tower of Gold). This is where much of the money and plundered property from the Americas was kept. We are visiting it in my 3 cultures class, so expect a better explanation later.
This is the Puerta de Jerez. It divides the pedestrian only streets from the normal streets. It is the next thing you see after crossing the bridge and walk for 1 minute.
Past Puerta de Jerez is Avenida Constitucion. Very touristy, and leads me to La Catedral on the way to school. If you were to keep going it would take you to El Ayuntamiento (town hall).
After following the Constitucion for a bit, I turn right and walk past Real Alcázar, seen in the back of the photo.
This is the last thing I see before getting into little windy streets. From La Catedral it is only 6 minutes more to school.
Total Travel Time: 25-30 minutes walking
Famous Monuments: 4
I definately have the best walk to school.
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I love the newest post. Yea, sometimes it's great to just give people a "day in the life of" kind of post and show them what you see every day (which by the way is incredible!). However, now you have inspired me to try a similar pursuit and see if I can compare my route to class with yours (think I can top the historical monuments passed?). Expect a post soon that shows my walk (which might be significantly longer...I generally take the metro), and the sites en route. I love that you took a picture of the grocery store too. In France, the main grocery store is called Monoprix and it also serves as a department store for clothing and such (bizarre).
Very cool! It was neat to see your walk and think about how different it is from the walks I had from my 2 houses during college to TCU. You definitely win that contest. Isn't it so cool to walk around with all those crazy things around you? That's how I felt when I went walking through Paris the past couple of days (I did NOT mean for that to sound as snotty as it probably comes across!)
Love you!
P.S. We need to chat on Google some time! Let's get it together. (What is the movie where one of the characters says, "You've got to pull yourself together!"...that's gonna bug me.)
Loved the tour, Matt. Your blog reminds me of that summer you with us in the motorhome and kept a journal of what you did every day. Where is that little boy?
Just talked to Kate - will be with all tomorrow.
Love you, Grandma
I can rest now that I've seen the dip you sleep in. :-} Really, I loved the pics of your day to day walk. Amazing that a place can have that kind of architecture and also have A/C and Cable all mixed in. BTW, I don't feel sorry that you're in SPAIN having a BLAST and losing your cable. The rest of us living our usual little lives feel like it's poetic justice!
I hadn't read your blog at camp because it was blocked, so it's been great catching up. Also, I have to say you looked pretty handsome in the King's chair. Love you, Mom
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