Seville, a great city to live in in Spain

From Ronda to Seville, 127 km from Google map, 1 hour 41 minutes drive. I booked from Booking.com, taking the cheapest price as the basis, and there is free parking. I read the comments that it is convenient to travel. The price per night, excluding breakfast, is only about 1,200-1,500 baht. I did not expect to get a great place to stay. It is about 30 km from the city center. If it is closer, the hotel price will be much more expensive, not less than 3,500 baht. Plus, there is no parking, or if there is, you have to pay for parking. So I took a risk and booked first. If I can't sleep, I will move later. Traveling alone is easy like this. There is no certainty. If you don't like it, change it. You don't have to ask anyone's opinion. Seville is a big city. I drive on the expressway all the time. When I got close to the accommodation, there was a road that branched off from the expressway. I drove until I reached the accommodation, which was in the middle of the city in a residential area. The accommodation is a large area. The deeper part is accommodation for travelers who come in camper vans. They only need parking, bathrooms, and electricity. The parking lot and ordinary houses are more spacious than the general area. It is a long 2-story building with a large parking lot and shady trees. You can park 20-30 cars. Compared to the price, it is unbelievably cheap. The room looks old and a bit run down. The old air conditioner is noisy. The windows are made of glass folding doors that block the sound of people talking outside. But the price is cheap. Good parking. It is next to the shopping mall, near the bus stop, so it is okay. After checking in, I put my stuff in the room and went down to ask the receptionist how to get into the city. He recommended the bus stop and bus line, then went out to explore. It was almost noon and I was a little hungry. I looked for a place to eat in the shopping mall. It looked like there was only bread and coffee. I didn't feel like eating. I wanted something hot with more protein than carbohydrates, so I went straight to the bus station and went to find something to eat. I took the bus to the end of the line and got off in the middle of the city. It was like the end of the line at Sanam Luang or something. I walked around looking for a steak restaurant first, then walked around. There was a long queue at Plaza Del Triunfo. I couldn't handle it. I walked around taking pictures there for a while and then ran out of ideas. I looked at the map and saw where to go next. It just so happened that a guide announced that if anyone needed a guide to the palace, they could contact him (he got a 4 euro commission). So I asked what he was showing. He said that there would be an English guide who would take you to the palace without having to wait in line. So I agreed because I thought I would give up when I saw the queue. They let people in every 30 minutes, 40 people per round. They said some groups waited up to 3 hours. It was a visit to the palace called Real Alcazar de Seville, consisting of 4 parts, 3 different eras of the palace and a garden. The guide took us on a tour and told us about the history for 1 hour + the entrance fee, which can be skipped for 25 euros. This palace is nicknamed the Mini Alhambra because the Christian kings at that time liked the Alhambra style palaces, so they had the Moorish craftsmen build it. The palace is much smaller than the Alhambra… it’s like a partial replica, but it’s beautiful, as expected of an old palace. When we came out, we looked at the next tourist attraction, PLAZA DE ESPAÑA. This is a place for city activities, very large and the surrounding gardens are also very large. There are only big trees. This place is free to enter. Seville Aquarium I wanted to walk along the river, so I set Google Maps to the Seville Aquarium. When we arrived, we went to take a look. The entrance fee is 16 euros, not very big, but it’s okay. There weren’t many people. After coming out, I felt full from visiting Seville, so I walked along the river back to the city center. Traveling in a circle, not thinking of going anywhere else, wanting to walk comfortably, looking at other cities. Walked to a pier, there was a staff holding a promo card offering to take a boat trip on the river. My legs were starting to get tired, so I agreed. After waiting for a while, the boat arrived. It was not a very big boat, able to hold about 10 people. It was a foreigner of many nationalities. They stopped at various piers and other tourist attractions. I chose to return to the original place because I couldn't walk anymore. I traveled feeling strange. Wherever I went, there were only white foreigners. As far as I can remember, they introduced themselves. Most of them were Americans, British, French... They always looked at me in an evaluative way. But I told myself that I didn't care. I didn't ask anyone for food. 😎 When I returned, I walked to the same place I had in the morning where there was a palace. I remembered walking through the tourist attraction, so I walked through the palace. I hoped that if I walked straight, I would come out to the place where the bus stops. But unfortunately, no matter how I walked, I couldn't get through. It was a maze of mountains. I couldn't find the exit. I asked everyone who answered in a confused manner. It was a tourist road. It was an ancient city. I got lost for about 1 hour before I could get out of the maze. By the time I got out, the sky was starting to get dark. I took the bus from the original place, so I could sit comfortably until I reached my accommodation. It takes about 40 minutes to travel. Impressed with many things during the whole day trip. The first is the water in the Rio Guadalquivir River that flows through the city. People can do various water activities and the water is clean. You can fall into the water without worrying (I met 4 girls who were learning to kayak in a group and the boat capsized. The guards came to help quickly.) There were children, teenagers, and even very old people kayaking in the river seriously. There were guards taking care of them the whole time. There were both large and small boats taking tourists to see the view on both sides of the river together, which was unbelievable. (The boat ride costs 15 euros for 1 hour.) The second impressive thing is the restaurants and souvenir shops in the tourist attractions near the palace. Every shop is decorated cutely. The narrow streets in the tourist attractions, don't think they are pedestrian streets. They are roads for cars. They are narrower than the village in Ronda. It's just flat ground with no slopes. I love "Seville" 🥰😍❤️ #Europe #Spain #seville