Bill spent 3 weeks in Seville, working with his colleagues Lucía
Tabares and Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo
 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  8.  9.  10.  11. Courtyard of the Museo de Bellas Artes  12. museo  13. museo  14. museo  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  18.  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)  27.  28.  33. Lucia's other horse, Presuroso (= quick, hasty, speedy)  34. Otón, who responds to Lucia's voice commands  35. Otón  36. tack room  37. Lucía, Guillermo, and I had tapas at an ancient restaurant in Triana...  38.  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  43.  44.  45.  46.  47.  48.  49.  50. ... and finally we toured the cathedral (3rd largest in europe)...   52.   54.   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  59.  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  68.  69. Antoñito  70.  71.  72.   74.  75.  76. Rocío Ruiz on the right  77. Goodbye gift for Anca  78. Rocío and Anca  79.   81.Raquel and Antoñito stopped by the lab to analyze data one day  82.  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  88.  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  92.  93.  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  95.  96.  98. Luismi, Rocío, Andres,Guillermo  99.  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.  |