Our place in Seville

While we liked our home exchange in Madrid, this place in Sevilla is so much more beautiful. It's the top floor of a very old three-storey apartment building right on the Plaza de la Incarnacion, one of the iconic areas of the city.

Here's the view out our living room window. It faces the Metropol Parasol, a modernist structure built in 2011 in an overlooked area mostly used for parking. Now it's a vibrant gathering place.

The apartment has two bedrooms and windows looking out in two directions, five in all, and each of them has a little Juliette balcony. It's a wonderful spot to watch the ongoing saga of the lives on the plaza.

Although it's noisy at night, there is air conditioning and double glazed windows (as well as ear plugs) so we can sleep in peace and quiet.  The top two windows in this photo are the kitchen and bedroom windows looking out on the plaza. Below us are two cafes and across the way underneath the Metropol Parasol is a large market. We're surrounded mainly by pedestrian areas so it's easy to walk around and see things.

Here are a few views of the sweet apartment for you to drool over.

Well maybe you won't drool over the stairs. It's quite a ways to climb with groceries.  

This morning we went to the market to look around and stock up on some food. It's a big open air place, very modern, although the shopkeepers here go back a long way. There has been a market in this area since medieval times.

Our trip from Madrid on the train was very fast, hitting speeds of up to 300 km an hour!

Here's another couple of views of the Parasol so you can get an idea of this size of this structure.

We're here for a week so we have lots of time to look around. Our only challenge is the heat. It was 32 C when we arrived yesterday. Thank goodness for the air conditioning.