Hola a todos, happy Wednesday! I had a productive rent-paying internet-organising bus-ticket-buying class-going kind of day today, and this Wednesday is the beginning of a very Spanish type of weekend. A 4 day weekend. When a public holiday falls on a Thursday, often the Friday is taken off too, forming a lovely long weekend for everyone, and the name given to this is a Puente, which is Spanish for bridge. Doesn't it all make sense? This weekend from Friday to Sunday I'll be enjoying my puente with a last minute trip to Granada with some friends, so hopefully I'll have lots to show and tell you when I get back. In the meantime enjoy this photo collage (phone camera, fairly grim quality I apologise) of pictures I took during a trip to the Museo de las Bellas Artes today in Seville. It's free in with an EU passport, and as I had mine on me when I passed by this afternoon on the way back from the bus station I figured why not go in as I hadn't actually seen inside yet. It was a nice way to spend 45 minutes, I'm not a big fan of religious art, which is what a lot of the collection is made up of (I find it very repetitive) but there are some nice Baroque era portraits and works by Sevillan artists from the 18th and 19th centuries. Considering that it's free and doesn't take too much time to go around, I'd say it's very worth a visit. I'm looking forward to going back and spending more time there. I like going to art galleries on my own, to quote Mr. Bean in his film "I... sit in the corner... and look at the paintings". They're very calming places to be... unless they're a modern art gallery in which case they can be scary and tiring. Hasta luego x
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