Seville is known for flamenco dancing and tapas. It´s said to be at its best here.
On Thursday night, Bruno sent me where he sends all of his Couch Surfers: to a flamenco tabernas, a bar with local, skilled dancers and musicians performing for free. Or you can see flamenco at a Tablaos, which are highly touristy and pricey.
Flamenco consists of clapping, guitar, singing, rapid foot-tapping, and swirling dancers.
This dancer had it going on. I appreciated her intensity.
OK, back to food. Tapas... yum.
Seville claims to be the birthplace of tapas, which are small plates, appetizer size portions for cheap, like a few dollars.
Many tapas bars have food displayed on the bar. Additional items can be ordered off the menu, too. And you can order an entree size serving.
I tried shrimp with tomatos and onion. And the nice guys next to me offered me to try their dish of octopus in some sort of creamy sauce. This is why I like Spain, it´s totally cool to offer some stranger a taste of your food. As some of you who have witnessed, I´m all about eating off strangers´plates in bars. If they wanna share, why not?
This is what a typical bar in Seville looks like. People stand or sit at the bar, eat, and drink booze or coffee.
From what I´ve seen in Spain and France, coffee is an acceptable drink to order at most bars. Clubs excluded.
In Chicago and most of the US, you don´t go to a bar to drink coffee, you go to a coffee shop. If you went to a bar, chances are the bartender would be pissed he had to make a pot of coffee.
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