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General Category => Rides and Touring => Ride Reports => Topic started by: meddyg on 25 January, 2017, 02:10:12 pm

Title: Seville - a day on bikes
Post by: meddyg on 25 January, 2017, 02:10:12 pm

I'm not very good at City Break holidays - it can be 'just looking at stuff' following a guide's elevated umbrella.

However, with Vueling offering £25 fares Cardiff to Malaga, we thought we'd have some winter sunshine.

SO we pottered off to bike hire and served by Ali, cricket enthusiast and multilingual Pakistani.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/488/31704810883_c42315b0be_k.jpg)

Cold and clear at 10am in Marie Louisa park - the Mudejar pavilion in their 1919 World Exhibition park.

Thence across the Guadlaquivir river (= wadi-al-kabir in Arabic) to Monasterio de Cartuja -
used for some years as a pottery by enterprising Brit who added the chimney and bottle kilns.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WSOc3n94DJs/UWUhuSg_-HI/AAAAAAAAEhA/9lPq8bjJxIk/s1600/Puerta+de+Tierra+(11).JPG)

There's also this fantastic tree (off to look up the name now) brought back from the Americas
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/634/32516828885_9ab392889b_k.jpg)

and 'here's what we made here !

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/504/31704844433_3af789f24f_k.jpg)

There were plenty of hip Sevillianos in the café there, but we had to get on . Into the University to cross the river again.

Plenty of the churches have clues of initial use as a mosque -  this one has retained a tiled dome

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/642/31673167024_daf65988b8_z.jpg)

this one retains the muezzin's tower

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/748/31673083924_44b01359bd_z.jpg)


All good things must come to an end - here we are defeated by 'crap cycle lanes!'

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/290/32518079415_e19e55b025_z.jpg)

Ne'er mind it was time to head off for a cuppa and a cerveza to a shouty Spanish café across the river; ideal relaxation - oh and peaking temps at 19.5C !

Finale

Walking tour man pointed out this brass inlay symbol at sites previous occupied by Jews

'what's this?' he asked

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYQUdgWjtnJ6nN6nK6QcvrwgcZ3E3BkH03zM3bAHDQJ__WSBjSkw)

'Hebrew characters' says I

'Nope , it's a map of Spain .
Clearly it's both !

I looked it up - someone will come along in a mo and read it for me !

Title: Re: Seville - a day on bikes
Post by: hellymedic on 28 January, 2017, 12:44:56 pm

Rather stylised lettering. Hebrew does not have vowels.

Effectively S P N as you suspected...