A stash of 1,700 year old coins

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! Seville is a great place to spend your birthday, and we had a great time exploring and celebrating.

Once again, the weather helped out a lot. It's been perfect here in Seville, although we did get a little shower go through late yesterday afternoon.

We had an early lunch and it was just after noon when we finally went out. We headed over to the Parque Maria Luisa across the river from us to see more of the sights.

Out for a walk in the park.

Mudejar Pavillion, which now houses the Mueum of Art and Popular Costume, built in 1928.

Glen and Steve had told us about the Archaeological Museum here in Seville, located at the edge of the park. It is here that they have on display the hoard of Roman coins that was discovered only last April near Seville. It was on all the world news at the time because it was such an odd discovery. Some workmen had been doing waterline inspections and came across a bunch of containers.

You can read a news article here...

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/29/europe/spain-roman-coins-found/

We wanted to see the coins, but didn't have a great interest in the museum itself. Fortunately, entrance fee was only €1.50 each.

A huge Roman mosaic. There were several of them this large. 

I can't figure out how they dug them up and got them into the museum!

Mercury...the god of travel!

They have the coins on display in a room of their own. Great display, and a lot of explanation, but most of it was in Spanish. Still, it was a neat thing to see considering they were only discovered last year.

There were 19 of these urns filled with coins.

These coins are 1,700 years old!!

What they look like all polished up.

From there, we just wandered around. We'll be back in Seville in a couple of weeks when Ruth's cousin Helen and her husband Tony are visiting. Still lots to see and we certainly don't mind returning.

Back at the motorhome for a rest. Dave and Bonnie met us at a tapas restaurant at 7:00pm for a little birthday celebration. First time having tapas in Spain! Ruth and I shared three dishes, and Dave and Bonnie shared three dishes.

Oxtail.

We had stuffed mushrooms, oxtail, and stuffed pepper. Fairly large portions, and we were full. The bill for the four of us was €30 ($43.50 CAD, $33 USD) and that included three beers and a glass of wine. Dave and Bonnie's treat...thanks guys!

And then it was off to the Flamenco dance. You can't go to Seville without seeing a professional performance. There are about ten places that do daily shows, but there's a lot of variety. Some are dinner and show, some are large venues, and some are small. We chose the smaller venu at La Casa del Flamenco for the 8:30pm show.

The place only seats about 50 people, and there were 28 at our show. Almost felt like a private performance!

Four people in the show...the guitarist, a male singer, a female dancer, and a male dancer.

The guitarist didn't stop for the whole hour. He was really good. And with no sheet music. Amazing. The whole show is so intense. It's a very emotional form of dance.

There's no photography of any kind allowed during the show. At the end, they do a quick one minute long thing where you can use a camera, so I videoed it for you. Unfortunately, it wasn't as good as the show itself, but you get the idea...

Really good birthday for me, and another great day overall.

Today, we're heading for Portugal. Not sure that we'll do it all in one day, so we'll see how it goes. 

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