Nun Cookies!

Today was an adventure day! A lot of people are traveling this weekend, but I stayed in Sevilla for one more weekend before all of my travel plans/madness start. Heather, Natalie and I decided to go on an expedition in search of the famous Convento de San Leandro, where the nuns there sell different kinds of sweets. The interesting part is that they're not allowed to see people outside of the convent, or people aren't allowed to see them, so they sit by a turn table and you kind of yell through it to them and exchange euros for dulces via the turntable. It was quite a search to get there, Sevilla being the labyrinth it is. Also, we were standing directly in front of the convent, which is not clearly marked, and asked a policeman where are "las monjas que venden dulces" (where are the nuns sell sweets) and he pointed us in a completely different direction! After about 45 more minutes of wandering, we returned to our original spot and realized our mistake. No pasa nada, we got to see a lot of an area that we hadn't seen before. On the way there we walked through a bar area we often go to at not, I hadn't realized that during the day it's lined with interesting shops and art galleries. Sevilla needs to be explored at all times of day.

The turntable

This is Yema, the nun cookie someone suggested we should try. The outside white part was basically pure sugar and I'm not too sure what was on the inside. It was too sweet for me and I ended up throwing the rest out, but it's the adventure that counts!

An art gallery we stumbled upon

Later we walked up to Plaza Alameda de Hercules for lunch, which is surrounded by tons of cafes. It seems ridiculous, but even after being here a month I don't know half of the things on the menu! Most of them are some for of ham or pork. We ended up walking into an exposition set up promoting personal health and they gave us free scarves and some weird yogurt drinks. Then we met up with a few more CC-CS people and hung out by the river for the rest of the day.