Hola todos! This Saturday Julie and I went out on a little adventure; just Julie, myself and good ole Rick Steve's. For those of you unfamiliar to Rick, he is a well known, professional traveler who helps novice travelers, like myself and Julie, get the best out of their adventures.... aka the author of the Spain travel book Julie and I both bought for our trip here. We put all of our trust in Rick this Saturday. He only let us down when it came to his map making skills. Fortunately for us, this allowed us to see more of Jerez then planned. While we were trying to head north on the map we kind of somehow ended up southwest.... but it was well worth it! We saw the Cathedral and Tio Pepe! We eventually made it up to Bodega Sandeman for a tour and wine tasting. Lesson learned, sherry is absolutely disgusting! We both had to force it down. We started with an extremely dry wine. After the first glass my only thoughts were that it could only get better...boy was I wrong! We humored ourselves and ended up taking pictures of us forcing the stuff down (pictured below).
Though we both hated the tasting, we both agreed we were happy we went. Leaving Sandeman we ended up back over by the Cathedral (again, not having a clue how we got there), but eventually found our way back to the train/bus station. We went into the bus station to catch a bus to Arcos to find the building more or less completely deserted. We blamed it on siesta and decided to go eat and come back. Well, upon our return there may have been one or two more people in the building... but that's it, no exaggeration. Somehow we figured out you went straight to the bus to pay and hitch a ride. After this trip I definitely felt I have officially dominated public transportation. We had to take the metro to the train station and the bus to and from Arcos, but I digress. Arcos was a quick 30min bus ride from Jerez. Rick offered a self-guided tour of Arcos, but after the fiasco with his map of Jerez we decided to explore ourselves. Arcos is a really small town with one way in and one way out so it was pretty easy finding our way around. After seeing Arcos I'm not really sure why any of the other cities are defined as white hill towns. Arcos literally is a white hill town with all white buildings built on the side of a cliff, the other towns? not so much. The city had amazing views! When we got to the top where the Santa Maria church was we had an amazing view of the rolling hills below. Being in Arcos made me realize just how big Sevilla is. It definitely made me slightly homesick for the small city I know at home! 
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