Around The World – Seville, Spain
My ultimate goal on this part of the trip is to get to Tangier, Morocco. But sadly without a boat of my own, I have to travel along the southern border of Portugal and Spain to get to Algeciras/Gibraltar where the ferries go across to Tangier. Doubly-sadly, there is no train service across southern Portugal so I have to take a series of buses to get to Seville, sleep, then get a highly inefficient train route to Algeciras. I don’t mean to belittle Seville, but it’s just a place I need to get through. Happily, it was pretty cool so bonus.
The bus from Sagres back to Lagos goes at 12:05 PM and I’m out there at my same bus stop 15 minutes early, hoping they keep to roughly the published schedule. Right at 12:05 the bus pulls up, but across the street. I roll across and onto the bus. The trip back to Lagos takes about half an hour longer because we hit more stops on the way back, some for 15 minutes off the direct highway between the two towns.
At the bus station, I get a ticket to Seville. It’s a nice coach bus but 5 hours in the seat was beginning to give me flashbacks of the Philippines. At the bus station in Seville I rolled an easy kilometer to the Airbnb. The host was waiting for me, showed me everything in the flat and then gave me a map of the town. It was just past sunset so I decided to go for a walk. He drew a path along the river to the Gold Tower, up to the Cathedral through the old town, across the bridge past the bars and restaurants and then back home. I did the loop, gloriously warm in a short sleeve shirt after so much cold weather. I stopped for a cold beer and combined with a steep drop in temperature after sundown, I was pretty chilled. A fast walk back to the Airbnb warmed me up, about 2 hours total.
Tomorrow, Algeciras via Paris (or it just felt like it).
