The Albacin

Today, an old Spanish man tried to kiss me. I was in the beautiful Albacin neighborhood, minding my own business, taking photos from the St Nicholas church. He starts talking to me in Spanish, and I think aw how cute, this old Spanish guy is so nice. I try my best, and he invites me to have a cervesa next door. (By the way, you can get cervesas on the church grounds.) I think, nice, what a fun Spanish experience. After a cery broken spanish conversation, we somehow communicate that we're gonna go on a walk around the neighborhood, and off we go, walking very slowly because, well, he's old. Ok so on our walk he starts saying something to me I don't understand, I just smile and nod, but then he proceeds to take my hand and tries to kiss me! Wtf! He's like 80! I'm like no no no Juan, no quiero, adios, gracias para la cervesa, pero adios! He looked quite upset, but just stood there as I walked away. So much for my authentic Spanish experience! I guess that's it - the men continue to be aggressive even when they're seniors! I wonder if he just hangs out at that spot and waits for tourist girls to come by. Note to any such future girls - if some old guy invites you for a cervesa in Spain, just say no!
Anyway, when I shook that off and walked around a bit by myself, I headed back slowly to get ready to leave. A bit too slowly I guess because by the time I got ready and made it to the train station, the 5pm ticket to Seville was sold out. The next train was at 9, so I had to take my luggage, back to the bus, back to Justine's. Ha oh well, I guess it's all part of the travel experience.
Made it to Seville just fine and walked to the hostel with other weary travelers as the bus already stopped running by the time we got there at midnight. I did notice though that I felt a lot more confident arriving in a new city and navigating to where I needed to go.
This day was the very middle of my trip in Spain. Also, sadly, I'm done with couch surfing. In Seville is a hostel, which I've never done before, and then in Madrid I'm staying with a lady from airbnb. I'm sure the hostel will be fun, but I'm a little nervous it'll be all young drunken college students. The Madrid stay I'm looking forward to because the reviewers had all amazing things to say about the person, Cinthia.