And as you can imagine I missed 8:30 to 10:30 breakfast again. I did manage to check out of my room by 11 to move into an adjacent room. I mostly relaxed during the day. Went to a weird mushroom looking structure which was supposable the biggest wooden structure in the world but I don't know if I was buying it. Had a lovely time Drinking beer and eating tapas with a lovely girl from Holland that also works at the hostel.
That evening I went on the free jewish quarters walking tour that was hosted by the hostel. The hostel it self was owned by a Jewish family 500 years ago and had a lot of character. The front door was Hugh and had a littler door to walk in and out of almost like a cat or dog door but bigger. The tour was amazing. Right from the start he said he was not going to tell us a lot of details and history because you can just look that up on line on wikkipedia. Instead he told us the culture and exactly why some of the buildings were the way they were and so forth. In the beginning he said sevillens pretend to be rich, they pretend to be religious and are lazy. I was so confused in the beginning but as the tour went on he brought everything together and it all made sense. During one part of the tour he was talking about air density and heat transfer of the side walks for just a little bit and he said sorry I'm an engineer and he looked right at me and smiled a little. I think he could tell that I was the only one that didn't look like a deer in headlights.
After everyone gave him tips for his great job. Me and Sofia and three others stayed around and was asking a few other questions of some good spots and it just happened that he was like " you know what. I'm free right now. Let's go". So he took us to three local tapas bars and picked out 7 tapas that we all shared and tried everything and it was awesome. He knew I wanted to get the ham tapas so he told me dont get it here i know a better spot so he took us to a great place for the best ham. Unfortunately they were sold out so we got some other tapas there. But I got to try snails that were in a kind of spicy liquid type sauce. They were a lot different then the snails I had in Italy when I was younger though. These were much smaller and still had the head. The trick to eating them was to bite the head a little bit and then suck them out of the shell. After a little while I was eating them like potato chips. You can't just have one :-D.
And for you guys that don't know, tapas are a small side dish that you get when you order a beer. They originated because the Spanish used to take a long break from work and would drink beer with friends and family. But they didn't want to go back to work intoxicated so they would eat food along with their beer. Just a quick fun fact.
We all went our separate ways at about 11 o'clock and I went back to the hostel to get ready for the bar crawl round 2 ( for some reason after your first time its free). I went up to the balcony on top of the hostel that over looks the city to have some beers with the staff before I headed out. I ended up just going to the bar with them because I was having to much. The night was filled with mohetos, crappy cheap beer, walls lined with sex comics, sitting in a circle around the bar listening to a weed smoking shoeless hippy from San Francisco play the guitar, getting dragged by a guy from Italy for free shots because he knew the bar tender ( he works at the sister hostel down the road), shots that are tonic and tequila that you hold your hand over the glass and slam it on the bar and you are supposed to drink just the foam. As everyone knows from Penn state I'm not the best shot taker in the world. I'm more of a mixed drink guy. So I managed to make quite a mess. But no one cared and the guy from Italy gave me a high five followed by a huge followed by a kiss on the head which I was not really expecting hahaha.
I did manage to make it up for breakfast the next day somehow. After lunch I packed up and gave everyone hugs as they tried to convince me to stay another night but I had more of the world to see than just sevilla. Maybe I will return in a month or two. So I'm off to granada and looking forward to what's to come. I'm starting to get better at understanding the public transportation as well church makes things easier. . I am also meeting back up with two friends, or should i say mates, from Australia tomorrow that were at pieea and the bar crawl with me.
The train ride is beautiful and I am 15 minutes from my stop. So I think ;-) Already have the hostel booked ahead of time for 2 or 3 nights I forgot. See mom and dad, I can plan a little bit hahah.
Welp, I will talk to you later. For now !Chau!
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