I wanted to take some panoramic pictures of Seville & according to TripAdvisor the best spot was the La Giralda, a former minaret, but is now the bell tower of the cathedral. We headed here to find already a really long queue & it wasn’t even open as it wasn’t yet 11am. As I was heading back to Virgin for a coffee we decided to see what the queue was like later. My coffee at Virgin was delicious, well worth the trip back. The queue at the “mushrooms” was much shorter than for the tower so I decided some photos across the roof tops might actually be good & I’m pleased I did. It was amazing & also higher than I’d realised at 26 metres. You’re able to walk along walk ways covering quite a distance, 150 x 70 metres between the 6 parasols, the structure is wooden & the design was inspired by the vaults of the cathedral of Seville. It was opened in 2011. I decided to give the tower a miss & head to the Castillo de San Jorge, a medieval fortress, used as the headquarters & prison for the Spanish Inquisition. It was demolished to make way for a market, the ruins are now a museum & above is the market. It was really interesting, I’d started to read a book earlier this year called “against the inquisition” but had stopped as I was finding it a bit confusing, the book is based on a true story & I’ve now realised how much I learnt about the Spanish Inquisition from what I’d read. I’ll try again once I’ve finished my current book, Born a crime, stories from a South African childhood, which was brilliant.