Seville; weird mushrooms & great food

Well not mushrooms, but I can see why the Metropol Parasol could be called mushrooms ! It's a really strange, interesting modern sculpture, over a major square in the centre of Seville. I'm still not sure if I actually like it, but it's quirky and individual. What I do love is the bravery of the Spanish people who commissioned this construction, to convert an old square and deserted market, into a vibrant hub of shops, cafés, a functioning market and open community space. 

Being Spain, of course there is a bar at the top of the mushroom

The city looked amazing as the light faded, and the building illuminations came up

Last night was a boat trip along the river, again at dusk, only one picture as my camera really doesn't do low light very well. The iPhone is actually better in low light, much better, but I didn't have it with me. 

Spot the horde of kayakers coming under the bridge 

The food here is great, I have to say that I'm really enjoying the change in style. The cuisine is much less bread based, there's more spices used, and the tapas are very different. Here, they cost a bit more ( say 3 euro each) but are a lovely small helping of some thing simple, and tasty.

Yesterday I dropped into a cafe for lunch, a 9.5 euro meal i.e. about $15. Previously, that would have been a fairly boring salad, a chunk of fried meat with bad chips, a shop-bought dessert, as much bread as you can eat, and a surprisingly decent glass of wine. Filling, does the job. 

However in this little place, that was a lovely glass of wine, a salad of different lettuce leaves with prawns and avocado and a good dressing, two perfect lamb skewers on a bed of couscous and capsicum, followed by fresh pineapple with caramelised suger and chopped almonds on top ! All the servings were small, but together it was a light, healthy and beautiful meal.