Hotel Barrosa Park Chiclana de la Frontera

... and got ready to go out. Thinking I was back in L.A., I brought a red dress and heels with me. Everyone else had decided that the beach was a casual place, so flipflops and jeans would be perfect. Trust me, you'll notice the contrast in the photo I post! Anyway, we walked around the small city until we settled at a tapas bar. Cadiz is a very small city with little cobblestone streets and antique looking buildings. We walked around the ...

... to communicate. We were able to watch Flamingo dancing at the center in town as there was a special performance that night and the star was a young man who grew up in Cadiz and Loly and her husband have known as a child. After the show we went to lunch with Sergio and Oscar their sons. Oscar is older and speaks a little English and looks just like Jon Vaglio. Crazy. That morning both sons were at a casting call for a movie to be made with Tom ...

Today was the second and last excursion we did through Holland America. Jacqui had wanted to see the Andalusian horse show, and we could also get in a sherry tasting with it!

First off was the tour of the Gonzales Byass winery. I'm not a big fan of the normal sherries, but I love the sweet sherries. And it was cheap. I got a ...

... show was actually really good - she just got very bored, very quickly. you see one horse dance you've seen them all...Mike took her outside to play in the courtyard. The arena is set in a beautiful garden with a fountain. They had a ton of fun running around the garden and I thoroughly enjoyed the dancing horse show. There are 8-12 horses and horsemen who come out in the arena and do the most amazing horse dances all to beautiful spanish music. It is ...

... würde. so nach dem stil; irgend ein land,wo eh keiner mit dem bus hin will. echt komische sache. die dame wollte mir auch nicht die nummer verraten von der telefonauskunft (das pendant zu unserem 111) und eine andere rumänien-ticket-hostess wollte mir glauben machen,sie wisse was ich meine,aber kenne die nummer nicht :-)) haha....sehr glaubwürdig. so quasi: stör mich nicht beim langweilen.

naja....dann gab es noch lustige ...

... farly uneasy to see a million of trains packed with dressed up, stoned and half-conscious people; they were shouting, dancing and staggering on the station, dashing towards the city centre. When our train finally arrived, delayed over 2 hours, it was stinking so much of sweat and alcohol that its windows were steamy and everything was sticky. I considered thanking God for the air-condition that helped to sort it out.

I was back home almost at midnight.

... duits (of oostenrijks zegt maar, want de duitsers hebben het hier lastig met magdalena's dialect). Iedereen vraagt constant, is Hollands hetzelfde als Belgisch? Verstaan jullie mekaar? Wij: 'natuurlijk verstaan wij die hollanders, buiten hun accent, is da dik in orde'. Buitenlanders gaan er echt vanuit dat de taal van Nederland en België totaal anders is. Nu ja, ik ben ni de eerste om te zeggen dat wij dezelfde taal hebben als hollanders, maar kvind het toch extreem bizar ...

... hier alleen maar dikke mensen rondlopen met scheve tanden en veel gehandicapten, mss heb ik er een verkeerd beeld van maar het valt mij altijd op. Er zijn ook veel zwangere vrouwen en heel raar, kei veel spanjaarden zijn megaaaa alternatief! Die staan vol met tatoeages en piercings maar tot op het overdreven af. We gingen donderdagavond naar een klein tapabarreke waar een bandje kwam zingen = flamenca, enkel zingen niet dansen, nu ja bandje? Het waren twee kerels in een kostuum ...

... the league, but Ronaldinho needed to really show up and play and prove to the world that he is the player that he was last year too. We all bought our tickets online and needed to get to the ticket office the day of the game to pick them up. I had asked a taxi driver where it was and he said it was at the stadium, so four of us collectively figured out how to us the Barca metro and caught the 1 train down the Camp Nou, the Barca stadium. We were all decked out in Barca jerseys ...

... about going to Morocco for the day tomorrow. I figure it's so close it would be a shame not to... plus I want to say I've been to Africa. I found a day trip for E56 which is a great price in my opinion as to take the ferry by myself costs E29 EACH WAY - so I've already saved money. I went shopping for some groceries for breakfast and caught the 8pm shuttle back to the hostel. Spent the evening talking to other people also not interested in football.