Hotel Dunas Puerto El Puerto de Santa Maria

... in our program - the beach. Yep, the beautiful, white sandy beaches of Cadiz, the most ancient city in Spain.
We had a fun train ride there - Amanda, Jen, Claire, Shannon, Alice, Hedi, Emily, Lizzy, Emily P., Joanne, Aaron, Ian, and Reid. I played a card game called Big 2 and got flicked in the forehead by Ian when I lost, no mercy. Apparently luck was not on my side that morning because at the end of that train ride, I still had a red welt ...

So today we didn't have an excursion because we had our own private tour guides in Rachel's host family from three years ago. 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 seemed and although they spoke no English and we speak little Spanish we were ...

... set up a little ladder so that the mice could drink the sherry out of a wine glass!


Then we went to the horse show. Very similar to what the Lippanzaner Stallions do. It was…an experience…but I don’t think I’ll ever go watch something like that again. But I can at least say that I've seen it.

... 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 ...

... on top of Moorish towers…who went for water?!

Of course the Spanish would never use the word "Gibraltar" until you're practically under the famous rock. They’ve always been in a snit that the Brits never have it back. Driving down a causeway towards the backside of the Rock, we got to the checkpoint border. Traffic was backed w-a-y back waiting to get through; I got the impression ...

... Luis at his garage and picked up a 1950 Ford 4 door sedan. An hour or two on the road and an hour or two at the ruins and several hours at lunch. Soo much food and sooo delicious. The seafood is fresh from the sea and prepared exquisitely. A little fino, a little vino, and a little sweet after dinner drink. Songs and pictures. Many good memories as I got hugs from so many classic car members and their wives who remembered "Pepe"! It ...

... tijdens het shoppen, kheb ook nog twee truien en schoenen gekocht (btw stien en ines, tzijn lage bruine botjes van 25 euro!!). Spanje is zovéél goekoper man, zalig gewoon! Ondertussen ook al de kaartjes die mijn ouders bij hadden van familie gekregen, danku daarvoor en het nog ne parfum gekregen van mijn ouders jeeeuj, verjaren is toch leuk ja! Ik heb trouwens besloten om mijn kamer wat te decoreren, dus heb ik al de kaartjes aan mijn muur geplakt en ook ...

... kunt da zien op de foto's. Ik hoop dat het morge beter weer wordt, zodat ik eens op het strand kan gaan liggen, want dat heb ik nog niet kunnen doen met al dat over en weer geloop om alles te moeten regelen. Volgende week maandag en in die week ook de vrijdag hebben we al verlof, dus gaan we misschien eens een uitstapje doen nr Sevilla ofzo, maar dat laat ik allemaal nog wel weten. Tot snel lieve vriendjes, ik mis jullie Vero x

... 24 hours, nothing else mattered. The only thing that was important was where you were when you saw the shot felt 'round the world. I am proud to say I was there, only a few hundred feet away. Dinho again did his customary sprint towards the sideline and in the process he tore off his shirt and waved it above his head. Even on the fifth level, I could see that he was grinning his famous, gap toothed, goofy grin and his eyes were still playing back the moment over and over. He made a ...

... King. It was now 4am. I met back up with Karolina and David who had told me that the train station was open-maybe THEY had a bathroom! Not only were they checking tickets (we think), there were TOO many people to walk through. "Let's go Karolina," I said. I squatted behind a car. All I kept thinking was, "why didn't I do this 40 minutes ago!?" Because I'm an idiot, that's why. After I relieved myself (it was a GREAT pee), we walked back to where I had just been ...