Hotel Barcelo Cadiz Cádiz
Avenida de Andalucia 89 Cádiz, Costa de la Luz, Andalusia, 15519, Spain and Canary Islands
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3000 Year Old City
... being played. More on that later.
The Cathedral was very interesting. In one of the side chapels there was a huge, silver monstrance. It is used during the Holy Week parades. It requires 12 men to carry it. We noticed a staircase going beneath the Presbytery. The gate was open so we went down the stairs. We found ourselves standing in the crypt. Several bishops are interred there, the earliest dating from the mid-1700s. Also of note ...
Jerez
Jerez, the sherry capital of Andalucia and probably all of Spain, is a cute but dirty seaside town about an hour from the ferry across the straight to Africa. It is non descript but offered a decent stop to explore the old quarter and sample some local food. I finally found a leather jacket (I've been looking for one for several years now). It wasn't the smokin' deal I wanted but still on the lower end of all the ones Ive looked at in the past ...
Christmas Base of Ops
... of fog until we were about 200 kilometers north of Rota. We were thankful when we finally drove out of the fog. We were able to enjoy the scenery as we dropped out of the higher ground to the city of Seville. Seville's average elevation is 25 feet.
We drove through Seville and headed on south via AP-4 (toll road). When we were about 50 kilometers north of Rota, we drove back into the fog. It remained foggy all the way to ...
Cadiz
... the entertainment (all miles better than the comedian), we attended a talk on George Gershwin, watched a piano recital of Grigg and in the evening attended the show "Destination Dance"; a show taking you around the world in the form of dance - Tango, Jive, even Riverdance! Very entertaining and my thoughts on cruise ship entertainment are improving - the show wasn't quite the West End standard as claimed in the brochure but the dancers and singers were very ...
Balance in the universe; yet again!
... but apart from that- not very remarkable.
Joel did find on the ground; the king of coins! A 2€ piece. We both think it is the universe paying us back for giving a French carnie a 1€ piece when we were in Santa Fe. Pretty cool, but last time we did a good deed we got wine…
At the top of the town the community was building a cool Navidad fair with all the bells and whistles. ...



