Feria de Sevilla

There is a week-long festival in Sevilla every April called Feria de Sevilla, which was my second week-long break. For the first part I went to Morocco (see previous post). I got back Wednesday night, which gave me the rest of the week to explore the festival.

I went out Thursday night with friends from my Morocco trip and it was a cool experience. It was cool to see all of the dresses and the area that Feria was at was very pretty with all of the lights and decorations. We mainly hung out in a public caseta (Spanish for little house). The main part of Feria consists of hundreds of casetas where most of the dancing and drinking take place. Most of these are private, with a few being open to the public, which was where we found ourselves at. After watching people dance for a while (due to our lack of Sevillano, the dance of Feria) we headed out to explore the rest of the area. The other part of Feria, besides the casetas, looked just like a county fair in America. There were rides, places to buy deep-fried and other unheathly food, and games. It was good to walk around for a while, especially with it being nice weather wise. However we didn't stay long because we were all still exhausted from out trip but I was glad that I got to experience Feria at night.

The following day, a few of my friends and I went out to explore Feria during the day. It was a great day weather wise, if anything it was too hot outside but I tried not to complain because it was one of the first days like that in Sevilla since January. Feria during the day ended up not being as fun as during the night. There weren't as many people and when we tried to get out of the sun for a little bit there wasn't any room in the public casetas. So after a while, and some ice cream, we headed back to our places.

¡Hasta luego!