Seville 2013
Bill spent 3 weeks in Seville, working with his colleagues Lucía Tabares and Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo
1. My apartment - Calle Peral 56 - top floor, corner (4 windows)

2. I joined the gym that is just across the street from my apartment. Debby was here, evidently (why didn't you call?)

3. A paso, viewed from my flat - practicing for Semana Santa

4. The float is a small version of the much bigger real thing, and provides good practice for the 30 costaleros carrying it

5. Just down the street from my flat is the Alameda (large plaza lined with poplar trees) de Hercules (tall ancient columns)

6. Alameda de Hercules, a splendid (and typical) public gathering place, full of life and activities for people of all ages

7. The magnificent Plaza de España, built for a 1928 world's fair

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11. Courtyard of the Museo de Bellas Artes

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15. A chance encounter with Sevillanos Alicia and Sebastian Chávez and their two sons, Felipe and Leonardo. They spent a sabbatical in Colorado in 2008 (see http://www.sgrhoa.net/betz/archive/080712/). Alicia is a journalist, and was working at the annual Book Fair that was being held nearby, at the Plaza Nueva.

16. Nice graffiti

17. Plaza Nueva on a Saturday

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19. Good solution to a serious traffic problem

20. A kind of fraternity group in the Plaza El Salvador

21. Bachelorette party, Plaza Nueva

22. Sevici, the wonderful public bicycle system

23. Archivo de los Indios, where all the records from the new world are kept

24. Gifts for Matilda and Thalia

25. Mule-drawn wagon in the suburb Valencina de la concepción

26. Lucía with her new horse, Otón (from Otto, in German)

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33. Lucia's other horse, Presuroso (= quick, hasty, speedy)

34. Otón, who responds to Lucia's voice commands

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36. tack room

37. Lucía, Guillermo, and I had tapas at an ancient restaurant in Triana...

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39. ... then walked across the Guadalquivir River (Tower of Gold in the background, where all the treasure from the new world arrived)...

40. ...we walked along the Avenida de la Constitución...

41. ...to the cathedral, where we climbed to the top of the Giralda (tower in distance)...

42. ... views from the top of the Giralda

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50. ... and finally we toured the cathedral (3rd largest in europe)...

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56. ... tomb of Columbus

57. Justa and Ruffina, the patron saints of Seville

58. One Sunday, Lucía and Guillermo hosted a lab party with these delicious tapas

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60. Lucía and son, Guillermo, a university student, soon to receive his degree (in engineering)

61. Verde (sp?) and Bill

62. Carmen (2) and her mother Mariangeles (postdoc with Guillermo), with Raquel (about to receive her PhD with Lucía) and Coqui and their new baby, Antoñito (2 months)

64. Lucía and Anca, a graduate student who was leaving for Sweden

65. Carmen and Guillermo and Rocío (graduate student with Lucía)

66. Anca, _____, Bill, and Rocío

67. Portrait of Lucía

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69. Antoñito

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76. Rocío Ruiz on the right

77. Goodbye gift for Anca

78. Rocío and Anca

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81.Raquel and Antoñito stopped by the lab to analyze data one day

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83. Raquel's parents, Alicia and Andres Cano, hosted a dinner party in their beautiful home (this is Raquel, Bill, and Alicia)

84. Cocqui and Antoñito

85. sitting room - the pictures are all of family

86. Ancient folio beautifully displayed

87. Alicia's bedroom

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89. Raquel's childhood bedroom

90. In the basement, a party room with dozens of family pictures (here, Andres points out a wall covered with pictures from annual pilgrimages (lasting several days, via horse-drawn wagon) to the pueblo of Rocío

91. Alicia, Guillermo, Lucía, Andres

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93a. Rocío (former postdoc with Lucía) and Luismi (molecular biologist and my coach for Spanish idioms that are not found in my textbook)

94. Bellota lomo de iberica - exquisitely delicious

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98. Luismi, Rocío, Andres,Guillermo

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100. Lucía and Alicia

102. My ultimate goal as I study Spanish is to understand the conversations of these two women - Alicia and Rocío - whose words arrive at my ears at a rate that exceeds the velocity of sound.