Hotel Eh Mediterraneo Cádiz

... 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 ...

... something to see. After the show we headed to another white village town called Arcos de la Frontera. This was another cobble stoned hillside town set among 2 churches and a convent. We had a nice lunch and walked around the town. The streets were narrow and tiny and mike did a great job of navigating through the narrow roads (he's getting much better)...we left and started our 2.5 hour drive from there to Nerja our destination for the next 7 days ...

Cádizist põhja poole jääb kuulus šerrikolmnurk, mis on tuntud šerri, brändi ja bodegade (veinikeldrid) poolest. Kolmnurk moodustub kolmest linnast: Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda ja El Puerto de Santa María, millel kõigil on oma lugu, kuid pidime valiku langetama vaid ühe kasuks. Tihe rebimine käis Jerezi ja El Puerto vahel, sest esimest kirjeldatakse kui flamenko, šerri ja hobuste v ...

... Europe. It goes back to 1100BC, founded by the Phoenicians. We are glad Cadiz hasn't been to spoilt by tourists in the old town. We really enjoyed our lazy day walking around the parks and Dino especially loved the miles of white beach, one of the best he has seen since leaving Australia all those years ago.

... 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.

... and tommorrow we start at the university. I will be taking classes all with kids from my program. But we will be taught by Universidad de Cadiz profesors. The second semester, hopefully i will be much better at spanish and able to take courses with other spaniards in regular university courses. Today I went to the playa victoria with some friends to watch pretty much the spanish version of the blue angels. It was an awesome show. We were ...

... terug waren van het toilet, was ik echt zo dood, dat ik samen met Magda, haar zus en Janin ben doorgegaan naar huis. Ann, Tom en Kirsten zijn nog gebleven en zijn nog in Nahu uiteindelijk beland. Toen ik dan thuis was en bijna int slaap was gevallen, ging de bel ineens om 4u, de Steff, hij was iedereen kwijt gespeeld en had geen gsm of niks bij. Ikke dus al beetje slecht gezind omdat dit al eens ne keer gebeurd was. Om 5u kwamen Ann, Kirsten en Tom thuis, Ann zei ...

... being spoken. The cool thing is, I learned some Irish Gaelic.... Dia dhuith! Melisa is anum dom. :) Anyway, it´s cool.... so now I can go to Ireland and say hello I´m from the California, here´s my phone number, and I like to read......lol..... Friday of course, we needed a break from the daily grind, so we had everyone from the program over to our apartment....where else? and did a bit of ...