Tuesday Apr 15, 2025 Day 2 in Seville

 

 

Milo slept like a baby until 8:00. Deb signed us up for a food tour in Seville and Milo got invited for a private tour of the ship's mechanical workings. The plan is to start the food tour at 12:00 and then Milo will peel off and head back to the ship for the 3:30 engine room tour.

We first visited the huge Plaza de Espana, which was built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. What an impressive area. We then walked into town to “the mushrooms”, the big sculpture we went to yesterday and met Aysa who led the tour. She is from Turkey but landed in Seville and fell in love with the city. She studied theater and makes her living leading these food tours until her acting career gets established. There were 12 of us and we had 4 stops, each with some kind of drink and

food. The food helps you from getting drunk!

Milo cut out early and got to see one of the Easter floats on the way back to the ship. He had to kind of melt into the procession to get across the road. Nobody seemed to mind.

Milo and two other passengers got a tour of the engine control room below deck. The ship's engineer spent an hour or more going over how the engines, generators, motors, how they turn the boat, how fast they can go (21 knots). Very impressed that they did this special tour.