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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2007-03-13 07:38 pm

Two observations of Seville

1. The fruit of the municipal orange trees found all over the city is unaccountably bitter, with something of a taste of marmalade. Perhaps they´re just not ripe ...

2. The Plaza de l´España, a semicircle a quarter-mile in diameter with a paved plaza, huge fountain, five towers, and six-foot by four-foot panels in painted tiles describing each of the 71 administrative districts of Spain, may be the most excessive administrative building ever. Somehow I´d feel a certain reluctance to take the advice of a Chamber of Commerce located on the third floor of a vast-vaulted pigeon-haunted pavilion covered with iridescent tiles, though I´d take its photo.

Seville is a little less self-servingly excessively filled with majestic buildings than Paris, but at least as fun to amble around - many more shady parks, though I suppose they´re compulsory given the climate.

[identity profile] ritaxis.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Are you being sarcastic? I expect you to know about Seville oranges.

[identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew marmalade was made from Seville oranges; I was just amused to find that the oranges planted in Seville were Seville oranges, in much the same way as I was amused to find that the feral cats in Bangkok were mostly Siamese.

[identity profile] ritaxis.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good. That's what I was hoping you meant. But I haven't noticed you taking that tone before so I was puzzled as to whether I was supposed to take it the one way or the other.