On the Plane Again

It was up early, onto the Ubahn, then the Schnellbahn, to arrive at the Wien airport. I am just a few days healed up from the return from Ecuador. The microbes have been vanquished, and it is back on the plane again. This trip I am in the company of my beautiful wife. We are bound for Sevilla, Spain. So it is Vienna to Zurich, Zurich to Sevilla. It is a bumpy little turbo-prop to Zurich, a ride that My One is less than thrilled with. Sitting on the bigger Airbus in Zurich, we can see our backpacks make the journey up the ramp into the belly of the plane. Yay, our luggage is going with us!

Sevilla Airport is like a time-warp, a leap away from stretched stainless and glass awning terminal, back to a time of squared off concrete and lots of it. We take the city bus into town, minding the GPS for a likely jumping off point. I miss it by one stop, but we end up a reasonable walk from our destination in the old city. Our digs for the next few days will be the Corral de Conde, which has a courtyard so famous that it is on the historic map of the old city. After a longish wait for someone to check us in, we are ensconced in our little studio apartment with a balcony to die for. 

Dating from the Sixteenth Century, this is our base of operations for the next few days.

A well-deserved break on the balcony as the clouds roll in.

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. And it did. Not being fair-weather travelers, and hungry to boot, we ventured out at the early Spanish dinner hour of 7:30 PM.

Tapas! Bring me the tapas and no one has to get hurt!!

Pollo y papas in almond sauce, one of the many small plates that crossed our table. Tapas for two, drinks and tip, the total bill came to 18 Euro. Not bad for a destination European city. There was a bit more wandering, a bit more rain, and then settling in for the remainder of the night. 

There is a lot more to say about Sevilla, but it will be said later. It was a good travel day, a bit on the dampish side, but we are here. Tomorrow is another day, a day of walkabout and noshing, but that will have to wait.

From Sevilla, Spain, it's Adios! And Ciao for Now!