Here we all are in sunny Spain!  Well, most of us, at any rate. Several of our group are meeting us in Seville, where the group is headed today via high-speed train.

Now that most of us are over our travel fog of the first day, we’re looking forward to a morning of shopping, sight-seeing, or whatever. Then we´ll catch the train in the afternoon.

Since we’re not set up at our Seville hotel, I´m writing this first entry from the Madrid hotel’s business center, and so I’m struggling a bit with the Spanish-language keyboard … it’s pretty slow going.

We had our first big Spanish meal last night (a lovely salmon-in-cream-sauce pasta, followed by beef and some sort of exquisite potato tart, then berries, and finishing with strong coffee with hot milk and tiny house-made pastries). All this at 8 o’clock after we’d all struggled desperately to stay awake through the afternoon, so as to recover from our travels and jet lag as soon as possible.

More (and photos) once we arrive in Seville!