Cadiz, Spain Travel Blogs

Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera.
Jan 6, 2009 (17 photos)

Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera.

Fiery Skies
Nov 27, 2006 (26 photos)

... down the hatch, a full belly and a stretched smile which took us off again, probing down more tiny alleyways. We liked Cadiz. It's huge, and emanates immense grandeur. Next stop was Tarifa, the southernmost town in Europe. We arrived at dusk and made ...

England and Ireland - finale
Apr 11, 2004 (6 photos)

... bed early since I had to be awake REALLY early. The next day´s events will be recounted in the next update (it´s my flight to Spain). Oh, the cold is better now. Pretty much within a couple days of leaving Ireland it started to clear up. The 7 weeks I ...

MADE IT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC!
Sep 5, 2009 (16 photos)

Hola mis amigos~ I have just landed in Cadiz, Spain!  The past 7 days we have been on the ship making our way across the Atlantic Ocean. I hadn't seen any land, a bug, plane, ant, bird in 7 days!! We have lost an hour almost every night, which leads to a ...

Adios Espana
Sep 8, 2009 (15 photos)

We are leaving for Morocco in a couple hours!! I had an amazing time in Spain. The first day we enjoyed the sights of Cadiz and then spent a lot of time at the beach! That night we saw a great concert with flamenco dancers. The next morning we woke up ...

sun, sea and soul-searching
Jul 5, 2006

... find that I can not resist it's fair song. la la la... Whatever. My friend Jillian (of Lamb Goggles fame) was living in Cadiz where she worked at a hostel called Caracol. I needed sun, I found a cheap flight with 'We'll treat you like shit because that ...

Cadiz
Jan 3, 2007

Cadiz

I left my *pants* in Cadiz
May 23, 2006 (13 photos)

... our most earnest attempt at taking a taxi to get there, the driver got us lost up some narrow streets (drivers in Spain can navigate a street better than a surgeon). When we finally found it, we experienced the Spanish plight of "closed for siesta". We ...

Cadiz, Spain
Oct 15, 2006 (3 photos)

... 2 1/2 hours so we waited at the station. Once we got to Seville we needed to get to the train station to take a train to Cadiz and knowone in the information office spoke English and we didn`t know where the train station was so we took another cab to the ...

sud de l'Espagne
Jul 13, 2006 (65 photos)

... France...Train jusqu'à Irun..en Espagne...train de nuit jusqu'a Madrid (9hhrs de temps) et de Madrid change de gare en métro...prend le train jusqu'à Sévilla...et de la le bus de 1:45 de route pour Cadiz!!! ...mais c'est fait...je suis arrivée ça passé vite!!

Andalucia 5- Cadiz and back to Madrid
Sep 6, 2009

Lauren and Liz had a much earlier train ticket to Sevilla than Liz and I, so they headed out early while we slept. Around 11, we finally pulled ourselves out of bed, packed up, and checked out of the hostel. The day before, we had seen a sign in the cafe ...

Cadiz - what a city! december and beach!
Dec 18, 2005

... on the road again today to visite Cadiz together with MArc and Tanja. We had a lovely sunny day and really enjoyed to be in Cadiz at the seaside. we wandered rount the town and climed up the new Cathedrals tower to see it from up there toook loads of ...

Cadiz II
Jan 3, 2007

Cadiz II

Andalucia 4- Sevilla and Cadiz!
Sep 4, 2009 (7 photos)

... hotel at the internet cafe and call to see where they are. He tells me they are right outside Malaga. MALAGA?! THE WEBSITE SAID CADIZ! We are pissed. I tell him we are not going to come, and can he please cancel our reservation, which is does (though he ...

Beach day in Cadiz
Sep 5, 2009 (5 photos)

... a person! We love grocery stores. We head out to Playa de la Caleta, which is supposed to be the most beautiful and famous beach in Cadiz. Due to a wrong turn, we end up walking about 3/4 of the way around the outside of the city, but we're not too upset, ...

Cádiz
Mar 30, 2008

Cádiz

Bienvenidos al sur!
Dec 4, 2005 (27 photos)

... wanted to speak spanish...and I was very glad when my other friends showed up because all of us just spoke spanish together. In Cádiz, I went to a couple of museums, hung out on the beach, and basically just explored the town. It was fun, but after ...

The Cádiz loop and fine dining
Sep 2, 2009 (5 photos)

... aboard, along with his wife for just over a week. They came aboard in Saint Malo France and departed in Bilbao, Spain. Elliott from Australia invited his parents aboard in Saint Malo, France and they too will depart in Gibraltar. Grandmother's Farewell ...

Day with the Host Family
Oct 29, 2009 (6 photos)

... ; They met us at the pier and were so happy to see Rachel it was great!  They took us on a walking tour of historic Cadiz and we had breakfast at one of their places they like and we had churros an coffee with milk. Loly knew everyone we walked by it ...

Cruising Cadiz
Nov 15, 2007 (6 photos)

... originally settled by the Phoenicians). It is a walled city, and the driver said that when Napoleon invaded Spain, he just couldn't get into Cadiz. Poor old Napoleon... Cadiz is a very nice and quaint town filled with students both American and Spanish. ...

The Cadiz carnaval
Feb 22, 2009 (5 photos)

... , drinking, smoking and making out in the streets at night. There might have been several million of the carnaval people in Cadiz that night, I think. By the way, the most original and interesting costumes were of Lego; there were also a few people dressed ...

Spain
Sep 5, 2009

... ; The food was great though, a lot of ham and cheese and bread.  Then we found a small bar that was showing the Spain football game.  They killed Belgium 5-0, so it was pretty fun to watch.  After hanging there for a while we found our way ...

Cádiz
Dec 3, 2005 (43 photos)

We left at 1:30am today to check out the south of Spain! First headed to Cádiz to check out the southern beaches (too bad it wasn't warmer) of Spain. Not a whole lot to do there, but we had a good time visiting a couple museums, checking out the beaches ...

christmas in cádiz
Dec 23, 2003

... , olives and tapenade, bread. The main course was baked chicken (for the carnivores), and followed by dessert, typical candies of Spain. In typical Spanish fashion, we did not get to bed until 6 a.m.! Cadiz has a few attractions to see, including a ...

Carnaval en Cádiz
Feb 2, 2008 (28 photos)

... cathedral and watched a great parade! Here's the what Wikipedia says about the event: The city of Cádiz is often considered to have the funniest people in Spain. The whole city lives the carnival for more than two weeks and the presence of this fiesta ...

Cadiz or Cadeeth?
Aug 7, 2006

... . Europe is expensive for the budget traveler, but we´re doing a good job of keeping it cheap. Upon getting to Cadiz, we started walking through a deserted old town. Not only was is siesta hour, but it was also Sunday. Which means absolutely NOTHING ...

Spain
Sep 22, 2007

Went 3 times to spain this year, once in Cadiz, once in Madrid and an other in Barcelona. Need to learn Spanish!!!!

a video! (audio is terrible tho)
Jan 26, 2009 (1 photos)

6 days at sea, and all is going very well! We're scheduled to arrive in Cadiz Spain late tomorrow night, and will be able to set foot on stable land for the 1st time in 8 days early Wednesday morning. I'm kind of curious to see how it will feel. You ...

Sunburn and flamenco
Jun 15, 2006

... on seafood or salad. I bought some potato salad that was absolutely swimming in dressing, it wasn't good at all. And Spain scored. And scored again. The waitresses were very happy and friendly. LOL! I went swimming, there were some boueys down on ...

Cadiz, Spain
Jan 28, 2009 (3 photos)

... the Phonecians about 2000BC.  Legend claims that Hercules once lived there.  It was later controlled by Romans, Muslims, then Christians.  When Napoleon invaded Spain, Cadiz was the only Spanish city that did not sucumb to the French.