Second day in Seville

Monday - Sevilla - We slept late despite a small dog somewhere in the neighborhood that started barking at about 8am.

We went to the Flamenco museum, which explained about the various styles of Flamenco dance. We signed Meg up for a lesson tomorrow, since she's taken classes in ballet and tap. A massage as on Monica's list of things to do, so we (eventually) found the nearby Arab baths and signed Monica up for a bath and massage tomorrow.

We took a taxi to the bull ring for a tour, but we realized that restaurants would close soon (they close from 3 to 8), so we went to the nearest restaurant for a quick lunch. We had a lovely lunch with grilled vegetables - including more grilled artichoke hearts with ham than we could eat.

The tour of the bull ring was led by a woman with the flattest delivery we've ever heard. It sounded as though she had memorized the entire tour -- in both Spanish and English -- phonetically. Luckily, the bull ring and museum were pretty cool anyway.

We walked across the Guadalquivir River bridge to the neighborhood of Triana, and saw lots of ceramic studios. I thought about buying tiles to go between the kitchen counters and the windowsills but didn't see anything worth the hassle of lugging home.

In the evening, we went to a flamenco show that was short but good. We stopped for ice cream on the way home. We like the idea of having a large lunch and a small dinner (and who ever said that ice cream isn't dinner?).