A long but much better travel day

Friday, July 16th, 2010

David left early this morning, around 6:00, Tim and my train wasn't until 11:30 or so, so we slept for a bit longer before packing up and catching a cab to the train station. At the station we had an early snack and purchased our tickets back from Seville to Madrid for Sunday before heading out about 10 minutes late on the train. The train ride to Seville had quite a few stops and took in total about eight and a half hours. I tried to kill some time on the train catching up on typing up my blog entries, but unfortunately even though we had a first class seat, there were no power outlets on this train, so the computer battery didn't last long, although I did get a few done. Other than that we slept, looked at the dry arid scenery out the window, listened to music, and played games on our phones. In many ways it feels like a waste of a day when the majority of the day is spent on the train, but sometimes it is much needed downtime. We arrived in Seville right around 8:00 p.m. and took a taxi from the station to or hotel. The hotel was a very pleasant surprise, although a bit more expensive than the employee rates we have gotten in many cities, I had booked it on Priceline for a reasonable price and it was in an excellent location in the historical center of Seville and withing walking distance of all of the sites and numerous restaurants/cafes. And and added bonus, free internet, so I could finally get caught up on these blogs. After dropping our bags and relaxing for a bit we head out down the street and found a cafe to have dinner at. Unfortunately the dinner was not that good and not that cheap, tomorrow we will try to scope out a better place and a better value. After dinner we headed back to the hotel, picking up ice creams on the way and went to bed.