Feb 16th. Sat. Got the blog posted. Frank and Wendy should be well on their way home. Bill and I took a nice relaxing walk after spending some time in the morning talking with our “neighbors” in the adjoining room. We had a nice conversation. Both gals are just 50 and one is from Scotland the other in England. Just a nice slow paced day. We went to church at the Cathderal, a different chapel than last week, and saw a bride out on a back street.
Feb. 17th- Sunday- should have been a sleep in day but our landlord decided he was going to install a shelf and some hooks at 8:00 a.m. Janie and I were already up whispering but two others were still in the sack. Juan really isn’t all that considerate with sharing his space. It’s more like you are there in his space instead of paying to stay here. Slams doors, makes noise in the morning, etc. It will be good to get back to not sharing spaces. We started out for a nice walk and ended up taking a nice hour long boat trip up and down the river for 45.00 EU. Then walking the river we heard music decided to see what all the fuss was about and ended up dead smack in the middle of a marathon. We followed a couple of girls that looked like they knew where they were going and kind of got in trouble. We ended up in a restricted area. Big surprise right? After getting out of the mess at the finish line of the marathon, we crossed a bridge to the other side of the river where it wasn’t so crowded. We found a nice spot to sit and watch people and have some fish and chips at a local Irish Pub. Yummy. A nice walk around town before a little nap. Later we ventured out for one last look at the city at night. Seville is a beautiful city day and night. I would recommend it to everyone.
Feb. 18th Monday- Rise and shine it’s moving time. We are off to Albufeira, Portugal. Seville is definitely a lot of hustle and bustle. It’s going to take a couple of days to get used to a slower pace and smaller town. The bus ride was less than three hours. Not a whole lot to see along the way. Mostly olive and orange groves. Getting all settled in we took in a little sandwich then off to find the local grocery store to get set up for the next 10 days. Oh, how good it will be to cook for our selves. YEA! I cooked a chicken breast with a baked potato, and stir fried veggies. That sure tasted good for a change.
view from balcony 
fisherman’s port 
Feb. 19th Tues- Off to see the town, or at least old town. A lot of cool winding narrow streets all leading down to the beach. There is also an elevator that will take you up and down to the beach, as it is several stories below the street. Not a big crowd here, but then again it is a week day. Perhaps is will be different on the week end. From the lookout spots we can see the fishing marina but not the regular marina. We will seek that out another day. The beach is super clean. I can imagine the hoards of people here in the summer. I’m glad they aren’t here now. A little drink on a beach deck, and some souvenir shops shopping. Just looking for prices right now. We had purchased some little sausages from the grocery store. Boy were they good! Tasty and soft, no fillers. We will get them again. Stir fried some veggies and there was our meal. Loving the veggies. the super moon was once again beautiful over the ocean.
Feb. 20th. Wed- off in a different direction to see what is around the big hill. It’s a whole different part of town. The big marina is there and a lot of tourist shops and condos. The tour boats dock here as well. We caught a bus up towards Aldi and Lidl for shopping, and the fresh fish and veggie market. We ran into some gals from Ottawa Canada, they heard our English, and they got yapping with us. Fun bunch of gals. Walked back to flat about a half hour or so, then time for lunch. I cooked up the shrimp we bought for dinner. Yummy. Didn’t care for having to peel all of those suckers tho.
marina 
just my style
Feb. 21 Thurs. When we had taken the bus to Aldi we saw a lot of people get off at a previous stop so we heard about a huge store at that stop and decided to see what all of talk was about. At fist we were going to ride the bus up and walk back down hill, but then decided we would walk up and if we had too much to carry ride the bus back. Well we ended up walking both ways. But the store was unbelievable. I have never seen soooo much cheese and wine in one spot. Even Sam’s and Costco can’t compare. Stuff from all over the world. And yes we did buy a couple of things. A dollar plastic shower caddy and a dollar dish washing cloth. What can I say? Our current flat needed both. I will leave the caddy but take the wash cloth to the next place. I hate a sponge for dishes. Gross. We stopped at a British place for fish and chips on the way back. Took an evening walk.
Feb. 22 Friday- Today started out with a morning walk to find the store where I had spied a nice apron for myself . Once again Bill thought it was one way and I another. Anyway we did find it and got a few extra walking steps in as well. Lunch was in and a little reading time and nap. Evening walk to a different street that we haven’t been on before where I saw a hotel that has a sauna and jacuzzi. I sent them an email to see if they allow outsiders in. I could really use a good steam about now. We have had really high winds for the last two days creating some great wave action. We climbed around the point to check it out. Pretty cool.
dinner
lots of cheese 
just one row 
Feb. 23 Sat- ROAD TRIP! Sat is the big day for market in a little town about 30 mins bus ride away, so we went. We caught the 7:15 a.m. bus to the station for a transfer to the next town. The market was very nice, but small. A lot of vendors on the outside. Just like it was spring time. A lot of beautiful strawberries which were $1.00 a basket. Pretty tasty to me. Raspberries, were a dollar also. They didn’t last long in our hands. We toured an old castle that had loads of ruins in a museum. Had Chinese for lunch yum! Walked some and did a little shopping. I bought a cute little hat at a resale shop for $,50. Deal of the day. We saw old ladies breading grass for items to be made, and a lady hand painting pottery. The bus was late picking up at the station and we missed our connecting bus, so we didn’t get home til 5:00. No big deal. We had a nice face time conver-sation with Dani. And watched a little telly. Beautiful weather today. 70 degrees . Looking to more of the same for Sun.
cactus “fruit” 
giant prawns 
yummy berries 
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