Current Location: Lagos, Portugal
The festival in Sevilla was a lot of fun! It was really like a huge fair (Feria). We didn´t ride most of the rides but we did take a turn on the Ferris Wheel, which must have been the baddest Ferris Wheel in the world… Maybe that´s a bold statement but… It was really awesome! After everyone got in, it started going so fast that I got nervous that it was broken! I was actually lifted out of my seat everytime we reached the top and started back down. It was super fun! All the women were dressed in these really colorful traditional dresses… (They looked like the dress the Chaquita Banana lady wears…).
The most amazing part of it was Jon playing the carnival game where you have to shoot pellets and get three cans down. This whole trip he´s been having less than restful nights of sleep because he always sleeps with a fan, and wasn´t able to track one down that was small enough to pack and would work on European circuitry before we left. Well, he shot all three down on his first go at it and they gave him a card that he could turn in for anything with a value of “1”. We figured it would just be a bunch of crap like you get at U.S. carnivals and amusement parks… But when we looked up at the “1” section… it was coffee makers, toasters, irons, sandwich makers and… a small fan/heater! It was completely and totally fortuitous.
Sevilla was great. It´s a big college town and there were young people everywhere. I swear there was more English being spoken than Spanish.
We are now in Lagos, Portugal which we totally love. It´s a fishing/beach town in Southern Portugal. Everyone is so friendly here! It´s an easy place to imagine packing up your stuff and moving to forever. I think this is a common sentiment because it´s filled with ex-pats from everywhere. Every single person who we´ve asked how they ended up here, they all seem to respond with, “I came here on a short holiday, and decided to stay.”
We´ve just been hanging out, walking around, eating fresh seafood, meeting “locals” and relaxing on the beach. Probably not too exciting to read about, but needed by us nonetheless. We´re recharging our batteries. Tomorrow we are heading to Lisbon and then on to San Sebastian, Spain.
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