Sevilla

After a really long day in the saddle, I am in Seville.  No one from CouchSurfing can put me up for the night, so I´m camping in a suburban town before heading into town tomorrow to do some sightseeing.  If I find something more affordable than 1€ for 20 minutes of internet, I´ll write up a decent blurb tomorrow about Cordoba and the ride to Sevilla.  Of important news, though, is that I have started on "Don Quixote", which I am fortunate enough to read in the original Spanish.  It´s like reading Chaucer for a modern English speaker, though, so it takes some time.  But it´s well worth it.  The introduction to the book qualified it the first modern novel, by modern meaning that it establishes the problem of the appearance of reality for the characters.  Literary criticisms aside, the first three chapters made me laugh out loud yesterday in a restauranta while I was eating a gazpacho-esque soup that was thickened with breadcrumbs.  Yummy!!!