I have been considering changing the name of my blog to "Jessica eats Spain," because more than anything else, that is what I have been doing: eating. Luckily, I had a visitor this weekend that was perfectly content to help me do so.
James and I ate tortilla Espanola, albondigas en salsa verde, espinacas con garbanzos, gambas al ajillo, queso de cabra con miel, a 400 gram leg of lamb that was literally falling off the bone, paella mixta, ostrich carpaccio with argula and parmesan, bacalao al pil pil, (codfish in a garlic/olive oil sauce), solomillo del toro el salsa whisky, (bull steak in whiskey sauce), and a warm salad whose ingredients were unidentifiable, yet it was one of the best things I ever ate. We also made our way through a couple of chocolate soufflés, chocolate cake with pistachios, a Venetian crepe stuffed with ice cream, chocolate con churros, and more than a few bottles of wine/cans of cerveza/glasses of tinto de verano/cups of café con leche.
Besides eating and drinking excessively we managed to tour Sevilla. We visited Plaza Nueva, Calle Sierpes and Tetuan, Plaza del Salvador, Sevilla’s Catedral and Giralda (cathedral and bell tower), Plaza de Espana, the Universidad de Sevilla, the Hotel Alfonso XIII, Sevilla’s nicest hotel, took a walk along the Rio Guadalquivir, saw the Torre del Oro and the Corrida del Toros, crossed over to the other side of Sevilla by way of the Puente del Isabel II to see Calle Betis in all of its colorful glory, walked through the barrio de Santa Cruz, losing ourselves (LITERALLY) in the narrow, winding streets, took in a Flamenco performance at Casa de la Memoria, went out for drinks with some of my CLIC friends, and even paid a visit to Sevilla’s Arabic baths, where for an hour and a half we submerged ourselves in warms pools, cold pools, hot pools, salt water pools, Jacuzzis, aromatherapy steam rooms, and topped it all over with a full body massage and some Moroccan tea. La vida es buena.
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