Sevilla Day #4

We woke up early today because there were a couple of things we still wanted to see. We walked to another part of town to see where a very old part of the old wall that used to surround the city is still standing. It was pretty neat to see. We also wanted to see Alameda de Hércules. It was raining pretty hard by the time we got to these places so we didn’t stay long. Although it was raining it was still about 70 degrees! We couldn’t decide whether to wear our rain jackets or not. Once we got back to the hotel we packed up and went downstairs to hang out. We thought we’d bought tickets to leave Sevilla at 2pm but the tickets were for 4pm. We hung around the bar for an hour and a half or so and then decided to go see if it would be possible to get on an earlier bus. We showed up and for 2 euros we could change our tickets to leave at 2:30pm! Our bus left in half an hour. We were quite happy.
It was raining pretty hard outside and a lot of the fields and olive tree orchards were starting to flood. It was kind of cool to see.

The bus we were on was extremely old and whenever we went uphill the water on the roof would all slide to the back and leak inside the bus! I was dripped on a couple of times but the guy across from us had it so bad he opened up his umbrella and propped it up so he wouldn’t get rained on.
After about 3 hours on the road we hit some traffic. Ben started his stop watch to keep track of how long we sit in traffic. After an hour and a half he quit keeping track of time. When we hit traffic we were still a good 2 maybe 2 ½ hours from Madrid so we were hoping it would clear up soon. No such luck. We finally get to where we thought we were being held up. Part of the road had flooded with about 3 feet of water. Once we got through that we thought traffic would pick up again. It didn’t happen. Another hour and half later we drove by an accident. Finally after the accident traffic cleared up and we were back up to speed. We had a 30 minute break for food and gas and then we were back on the road. What was supposed to be a 6 hour drive turned into 11 hours. We got into Madrid by 12:45am and made it home by 1:30am. Fortunately Monday is my short day so I didn’t have to worry too much about not getting a ton of sleep.

Overall, Sevilla was a beautiful city and we really enjoyed our time there.

Alameda de Herculeus

 

This church was by the old wall and they actually still use the bells! It is hard to tell but they are ringing them in the picture. 

 

The old wall.

 

This is the kid who had to use his umbrella. He is wearing a good too!