We got up early to travel into Seville by car. Unfortunately the rain had come back with a vengeance, so we spent the first hour or so in Starbucks checking our emails. Looking sadly out of the window we wondered if this weather would ever improve before our return to England. When there did seem to be a break we moved onto our next café for lunch! We took away a sandwich and slice of spanish omelette to the Real Alcázar. We waited outside for a while but once it became clear that the rain wasn’t going to ease we decided to go in anyway and resigned ourselves to getting really wet.
A lavish palace with much of its glory in the gardens, even under sheets of rain the Real Alcázar was possibly the most magnificent palace I have ever visited. I can only begin to imagine how nice it must be to visit in the sunshine and the perfect place normally to spend an entire day.
In the palace as well as in the streets we were amazed by the number of oranges, lemons and clementines growing on the trees and falling around our feet. Neither Graham nor I could resist scrumping one or two. However after not being able to eat even a section for the bitterness, we developed the theory that the city council deliberately grows inedible oranges to fend off thieving tourists such as ourselves therefore keeping the city looking pretty.
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