Eating our way through Sevilla

Casa Paco for dinner on Thursday night - A shrimp salad, baked portabello mushrooms and our FAVORITE "Camembert al horno" - Camembert cheese baked onto french bread and topped with black currant jam and Rioja wine. AMAZING.
You have to wait forever for a table but it's totally worth it.
Cheese is amazing!!

So sad that I am too full to eat the last piece!

After dinner we wandered around the Alameda and got amazing fruit candies from a little stall. Everyone is out late at the cafes, eating, talking, drinking and laughing.

Friday

Zara (a clothing store in el Centro) is very dangerous for me and I bought a pair of shoes... Attempting to wear my new tacones on the cobblestone streets = not a good idea. I was later informed that the Spanish girls all wear flats walking around and then change into their heels when they get to whatever restauraunt/club they are going to. Oops.

Open Market in the Alameda de Hercules - where we have made very good friends with a man from Algeria who sells hot mint tea and lets you take home the tea glass afterward....

Xavi, Alex, Iris, me, Brittany and Pablo beginning our afternoon of Tapa-ing....

At this bar - close to Iris and Pablo's apartment - we had Foi Gras, Melted Goat Cheese on toast, lamb and potatoes in olive oil and herbs, Patatas Bravas, some sort of tomato soup thing and Tinto de Verano (red wine with Fanta in it... real good).

Iris, Brittany, Pablo, Xavi and me

Tapas on Alameda de Hercules with Xavi, Iris and Brittany.

Later in the evening we went over to Jose "Corro" and Brittany's new apartment for a housewarming party and even more amazing food - five kinds of pizza that rival El Gato Azul, even one with melted Brie on the top. The evening was spent with Antonio (the head coach) and Corro (another coach) re-enacting the best/funniest moments of the team over the last 15 years. The girlfriends of the other players/coaches (Brittany, Iris, Bella and Marta) are attempting to educate me on how to not look like a "giri" (foreigner) before Feria comes and are helping me to put together a flamenco outfit. I bought a skirt at an open market on Calle Feria but still need a blouse, shawl and apparently blue shoes to match the polka-dots "lunares" on the skirt...