Postcard: Seville, Spain

In the Real Alcázar gardens | Art by Todd Berman

Hola Jesse + Sarah -

We've been thinking about you guys as your wedding party (that we're sadly missing) approaches. We hope that folks are buying all of Todd's art that you have on your wedding registry. Here's a postcard to thank you for storing paintings for us...

After an overnight stopover in Córdoba - where we wandered amongst poorly lit by still imposing columns, hundreds in number and Moorish in design – we head to Seville for more adventures in southern Spain.

We've found that half of Spain is on vacation, and another one-quarter of it is under construction. Seville, where so many of our friends stayed for their collegiate study-abroad programs, is a bit of a ghost town. Outside of the hood called Barrio Santa Cruz, where 20-somethings go to drink heavily and eat deep-fried tapa, and Calle Sierpes, a street that's protected from the stunning Spanish sun by Coca-Cola sponsored towering...sails...awnings (we don't quite have a word for it in the English language) so that shopping can continue through high-noon – outside these areas, there are few people around.

Thankfully, you can spend an entire day in Real Alcázar and we do. This royal palace is a three-dimensional lesson in pre-Franco Spanish history, and like so much of Spain, raises more questions for us than it answers.

XOXO -
Lauren & Todd

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