It seems that the people of Spain have a better understanding of the number system than Americans do. The ground floor is considered to be floor 0. If you go down a level, it is floor -1. None of this silly switching to letters to denote floors below the ground floor. I gave my talk yesterday on floor -2 of the conference hotel.
They also use a 24 hour clock so there is never any confusion over am or pm. Fortuntely, they don´t ring the bells 23 times at 11 pm - especially since we are staying at an inn right next to Giralda.
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They ring the bells most from 17:00 to 18:00. My personal theory is that they hand the bell ropes over to whoever wants them at that hour and tell them to go for it!
They sound pretty...
Posted by: shannon on Tuesday, December 13, 2005