The GCW Tour, Spain & Morocco: The City Walking Tour

Today started with a free walking tour of the city. It's actually pretty cool. There are signs in the hotel advertising the walk and telling you to be in the lobby at 10:15 if you want to join. At 10:15 the guide comes by with a group already in tow and grabs you, and you continue past a few more hotels with different start times in their lobbies picking up people as you go. Eventually you wind up in a square with about six guides and eighty people. At this point they start separating you by preferred language, such that you wind up in a group of about twenty people and a guide you can understand that doesn't have to repeat themselves in four different languages.

It was interesting that in our group of twenty English speakers, only seven were from the U.S. The rest were from all over the world -- Turkey, Canada, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Russia and a couple of others. 

The tour doesn't take you into any of the sites, but they walk you past some of the highlights of the city and tell some pretty interesting stories along the way. We wound up seeing some pretty cool things that I'm not sure I'd have sought out if it was just us. 

It was well worth the two hour investment -- plus the tip to the guide (who earned it).

Our Street

Our Neighborhood

Our Guide

The Cathedral

Still the Cathedral

Graffiti Older than America

Arab Influences on Sevilla

A Bakery Operating for 200+ Years

Tower of Gold

The Alfonse Hotel

Plaza de España

The Major Crossroads