Sevilla's weekend

I spent this last weekend in Seville, the capital of Andalusia, and the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. I have to say that been 22, Spanish, and not having been to Seville is like a deadly sin. That is why Miguel and I decided to spend the weekend there, at Eduardo's apartment (Edu is Miguel's friend).

We did many things, but there are 3 landmarks I liked above any other: the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, the Royal Alcazars of Seville and the neighbourhood of Santa Cruz. Apart from these 3 places, there are other wonderful places in Sevilla: General Archive of the Indies, Guadalquivir River or Triana.

We walked a lot, but we also ate in great bares and we even attended a social meeting with some high class students. This weekend Sevilla Football Club was playing the final of the Spanish Cup, and they won the match against Getafe. We watched the game at Edu's friend's, who has a penthouse next to Guadalquivir river, in front of Triana neighborhood. I love feeling rich, and I felt rich hahaha.

Here you have some pictures of our first day in Seville. I hope I will get the pictures from the other 3 days

UEFA Cup Semifinals

As I already said when Sevilla won the UEFA Cup last year, this is a competition to measure the strength of the mid-table teams of any league. On the other side, UEFA Champions League measure the strength of top teams of any league (we won't talk about that one, because the English team did too well, and Spanish too bad haha). So today we had the 4 games of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, with 3 Spanish teams playing. Me and my dad watched the end of them, and they all won.

Sevilla, the defending champion and 2006 Best Football Team, tied their game against Tottenham and that was enough to go to the semifinals after winning in Sevilla by 2-1. Espanyol had a difficult game in Lisbon against Benfica. No team was able to score, and Espanyol took advantage of the score of the game played in Barcelona (3-2). And last but not least, Osasuna is the other Spanish team in semifinals. It was the easier game because they won the first game in Leverkusen by 0-3, but they didn't have enough with that, and they won tonight by 1-0 with a goal by Juanlu. The semis will be Sevilla-Osasuna and Espanyol-Bremen, so at least a Spanish team will play the final in Glasgow. But what about 2 of them?