Our Life in Sevilla

Here is a picture of Brian doing the daily shopping at our local grocery store, Día, Although it may not have had the selection that the nearby Mercadona had in Plaza de Armas, it was perfect to pick up things here and there. Since the walk was substantially shorter, this was the preferred spot for buying milk, juice, Fanta, cerveza, and other heavier items.

While we were living in Spain, we opened a banking account with Banco Santander. This was the branch located on C./Tetuan in Sevilla's centre that was on my walk to work.

Ah, the General Optica. There was many a day spent here buying my crazy eye solution for my contacts. I must admit it was rather interesting explaining it all the first go-round!

Rebajas - Ya gotta love when all of the stores in Spain go into rebaja (sale) mode. January and July are the only months in which you can get discounted items.

Las Columnas = a damn good tapas spot in Alameda

Horno Nueva Florida = local bread store

Dos de Mayo: Fabulous tapita spot about a block from our piso. Killer montaditos!

The local store on C./Baños that sold household supplies. I personally bought our soaps here.

Although we didn't have an account here, this was a quite handy bank in that it had low service fees on our U.S. cards.

We spent the greater part of January in and out of the farmacias because we had both managed to get bronchitis. :-(

Pay phones serviced by Telefonica, the primary telephone company in Spain.

The mailbox drops. Yellow for outgoing mail and the green for the Postal workers to store large items. Remember, many of them delivered mail on foot, so it was handy to have a place to leave things. That way, they didn't have to carry a huge load all at once!

When we arrived in Sevilla, they had just started up a program called SeviBici. You could rent a bike at various points in the city and use the new bike lane that ran throughout Sevilla.

Funny little guy on the outside of the Glass receptacle.

Receptacle for recycling glass

Moto = very popular mode of transportation, not gendered in the slightest. There was many a time that we saw women dressed up in stilettos riding their moto.
Blue cube = the receptacle for recycling paper.

During our last weeks in Spain, I finally got around to taking pictures of all of the things that we had grown to know while we were living in Sevilla. Everything from the recycling bins to the businesses that we frequented most. It was a nostalgic process, but looking back, I am glad that I took the time to do it.