The thing about our train tickets was that we had to organise one or more journeys prior to travelling, meaning a wait in line to book a seat for the next journey. This worked fine except in Spain….another reason why we were miffed with the place!After arriving in Barcelona we went to organise our tickets for the journey to Seville, three days following. Unfortunately, we had to wait for about two hours in a numbered queue and then when we tried to get the train to Seville via Madrid, about 6 hours, all trains were booked. Instead, we had to get a train via Valencia, and this took about 13 hours or so.
A pain, but not the worst thing in the world, so we got to Seville in the end, so that was ok.
Upon arrival at our hotel, we were greeted by a very rude person on the front desk, who, despite our booking, made us feel very unwelcome and it seemed like it was a massive chore for him to book us in. That was bad enough, but we then had the noisiest room I have ever stayed in, clean but noisy. It was basically a room off the main foyer. It was a complete joke and we hardly slept at all.
This contributed greatly to our lack of enjoyment of Seville.
Seville was also undergoing pavement renovations whereby a tram system was being implemented, thus, the pavements were extremely narrow, dirt was everywhere and people in Spain are quite rude in general and walk straight at you, not giving any room or concession that you are even there at all. Combine this with LOADS of HEAVY rain and we had the worst combination of conditions to make Seville a place we won’t be rushing back to.
That said, Seville did feature one of the best attractions we visited on our whole trip.
It was the Royal Palace, called the Alcazar.
It was brilliant!
The architecture was Moroccan in style and the gardens were magnificent. The highlight of the Alcazar was turning a corner to reveal an open courtyard with Moorish detailed arches and a rectangular strip pond that ran from one length of the courtyard to the other. Brilliant, truly!!!
Overall, a wonderful place to visit.
Seville also had some good bars that served tapas and sangria, which we enjoyed, but in the end, we were happy enough to move onwards and forward to Granada.
