Well, back to talking about the day…at about 9am I went into a café that was along my walk since I saw people inside. Of course what I didn’t realize until I got INSIDE was that it was only full of old men (about 10 or so)…drinking shots…at 9am. Yep, you know, the usual. Of course I stood out not only because I was the only girl in there but I also don’t look like I’m from here…so that caused a lot of staring. Well maybe that was just because were old Spanish men lol. I didn’t care though, just ordered my café con leche (coffee with milk) and read up on a book I have on Rome since Italy is coming up.
After about an hour of staying indoors, out of the cold and rain, I headed out to do some more exploring. This time I followed some signs to where they had a park and some museums. I eventually found myself heading up towards the museum of jamon (ham) and museum of anis (anise- what they make licorice from). I did go inside the museum of jamon quickly, mostly to get out of the rain, but skipped the museum of anis because I wanted to have enough time to go see the chocolate museum (the whole reason I came of course!). So I headed down the hill towards the CHOCOLATE MUSEUM!
All in all it was about a 30-40min walk which would not be a big deal normally but this route was a little different. Only about half the route that I took had sidewalks. This was fine…up until I got to the highway. Apparently the only way to get to this chocolate museum is to drive or walk down the highway/main road hoping not to get hit by a car. Now the walk down the highway/main road was only about 10 min but the road isn’t busy since it’s a small town but there’s not much of a shoulder (if any on some parts). One part had a short cut…of course since it was raining the short cut was all muddy- awesome. I got down just fine but didn’t even want to think about walking back up at that point since my boots were soaked through to my socks.
Before even seeing the nativity scene you walk by a, well, what looks like a gingerbread house…but made of chocolate and candy. I think it was kind of based on Hansel and Gretel since there was a witch in front. Well that and the fact that the house was made of candy and chocolate...kind of sounds like Hansel and Gretel to me! The house was pretty big too…about 2 ft wide, 4 ft long and probably about 3 ft high…I wanted to take some with me for the road but it was behind glass making it difficult. Why would they do such a thing???
Next was the nativity scene. Now that was amazing. The sign above it said “typical Seville nativity scene” (in Spanish of course) and it was basically a town made of chocolate, probably about 20ft by 10ft so, basically, BIG. The town was made of buildings of white and dark chocolate, different sizes and styles. Also they had people in the town (also made of chocolate) with animals, just like a normal town. The detail in the whole scene was just incredible. I took a ton of pics, I’ll probably post like half of them in my photo album- “Life in Spain.”
So after spending some time in chocolate heaven I headed outside to figure out how I was going to get back up the hill and to the bus stop. I figured I should probably try to get a ride considering how dangerous it was coming down the hill. I waited around for a while until I could catch one of the tour group bus drivers and asked her about getting a ride up the hill. She was beyond nice and told me that wouldn’t be a problem, the only thing was they were headed all the way to the top of the hill, which adds on another 20 min of walking. I was just fine with that as long as I didn’t have to walk up that highway with no sidewalk… So I waited about an hour outside at the chocolate place I got on the bus with the rest of the tour group. The people on the bus were crazy and super fun, singing songs, making lots of noise- pretty much a typical Spanish get together lol. We got to the top in about 10min and then I started on my venture down the hill again. On a positive side note- I did get to see a pony on my walk down hill! hahaWhen I got to the bottom I went on a search for the bus station only to find out there is only a bus stop, just like any city metro bus in the states. Now I had about an hour to kill before the bus was scheduled to come. I ended up just chatting with a guy from Morocco who was also catching the same bus as me. After an hour had passed, the bus still wasn’t there, OF COURSE! I was about 30min late to come get us, which normally would have been fine but since my feet had been wet for the last 2+hours I was getting super cold! Anyhow I did end up getting home, changed into nice warm clothes and threw my stuff next to my space heater to dry off. I still haven’t caught a cold yet so I’m happy but now I know just to stay indoors when it rains like that! Either that or just made friends with cars so I don’t have to walk everywhere lol. I figured out that it may just be easier to stick to tour groups with events like that, but lesson learned.
It’s getting late here so tomorrow I will tell you about how today went in Cordoba!
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