Spanspek

We arrived in Seville. Our guide had arranged a number of "extra tours". More money, but it´s maybe a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The first was a performance of "real" Flamenco. Like the show in Madrid it was a mixture of live music and pre-recorded. The pre-recorded music was cheesy synthesizer recreations of Bizet. The sound was terrible (forgive me, I´m a sound guy).

The performance was enjoyable but I sense that it´s a tourist attraction more than a pure expression of Flamenco. Perhaps it is no more or less so than that in Madrid, but I enjoyed the latter more.

We did have a complementary drink as part of the package, so of course most chose sangria, that beguiling mixture of red wine, fruit and liquors (not sure if this had the liquors). It´s very nice but I think that the red wine was pretty rough. For once, I don´t care.