Arriving at the hostel I already had a good impression because I sat and talked to the guy at the desk for a while about travel. He's been all over the place and most recently did the trans-siberian rail trip, which I want to do someday. The whole hostel experience felt very much like freshman year dorms, where you're full of anticipation and openness, meeting all kinds of people, all hanging out together, before cliques have had a chance to form.
I took the morning tour around the city the next morning, which was very interesting and covered most of the major sights. The one that stood out to me the most for some reason is the old tobacco factory. Beautiful building, now houses the humanities department of the university, but back in the day, there were thousands of workers there, all women, and their dramas were the basis for the opera Carmen. Now I need to see that one! (@Adrienne)
I went to the Alcazar with one of my new friends, a Chinese-Australian girl Ying, and it was fun to be able to ooo and aaa with someone else for once. We actually spent quite a bit of time together that day because later we decided to skip the flamenco show everyone was going to, and go find a more casual bar in an area we were told would have something like that called Triana.
At one of the tapas bars we squeezed into between some drunken business looking people, we were told about one such bar called Casa Anselma by a couple of these drunken people. We quickly escaped after getting the information we needed, and after some meandering around and a quick picture with a random group of more drunken people (attached), found the bar.
Anselma was one of my favorite experiences on this trip! It was a nice-size bar, packed with people, some standing around the bar, but most sitting in the rows of folding chairs, watching the flamenco musicians and random people that would get up to dance and sing. Also, Anselma herself, the very matronly owner of the bar, would get up and dance too. There were no costumes or any program, just people that like flamenco. The energy in the place was awesome, everyone would sing and clap along and shout out requests. It was really cool to get a peek into this culture and plus, I realized I really like flamenco music. See here for more detailed pictures of the bar: http://www.sevilla5.com/activities/flamenco/anselma.html
I took the morning tour around the city the next morning, which was very interesting and covered most of the major sights. The one that stood out to me the most for some reason is the old tobacco factory. Beautiful building, now houses the humanities department of the university, but back in the day, there were thousands of workers there, all women, and their dramas were the basis for the opera Carmen. Now I need to see that one! (@Adrienne)
I went to the Alcazar with one of my new friends, a Chinese-Australian girl Ying, and it was fun to be able to ooo and aaa with someone else for once. We actually spent quite a bit of time together that day because later we decided to skip the flamenco show everyone was going to, and go find a more casual bar in an area we were told would have something like that called Triana.
At one of the tapas bars we squeezed into between some drunken business looking people, we were told about one such bar called Casa Anselma by a couple of these drunken people. We quickly escaped after getting the information we needed, and after some meandering around and a quick picture with a random group of more drunken people (attached), found the bar.
Anselma was one of my favorite experiences on this trip! It was a nice-size bar, packed with people, some standing around the bar, but most sitting in the rows of folding chairs, watching the flamenco musicians and random people that would get up to dance and sing. Also, Anselma herself, the very matronly owner of the bar, would get up and dance too. There were no costumes or any program, just people that like flamenco. The energy in the place was awesome, everyone would sing and clap along and shout out requests. It was really cool to get a peek into this culture and plus, I realized I really like flamenco music. See here for more detailed pictures of the bar: http://www.sevilla5.com/activities/flamenco/anselma.html
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