La Cueva Park Jerez De La Frontera

... say that we didn't make the mistake of forgetting this rule and had to go fishing in the toilet! She took the girls upstairs to the terrace - where we would be sleeping in hammocks under the stars. It wasn't until the next morning when everyone woke up with mosquito bites all over that we realized why this seemingly tranquil accomodation was so cheap!
We left our stuff at the hostel and made our way down to the beach. I am happy to say that I ...

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 ...

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 ...

We got up and headed out to the tourist office in Montejaque. We didn't have a plan for the day but we thought we might head down south to Gibraltor. Mike spoke with the tourism guide and he said "don't waste your time. It's just a rock". He suggested we head inland a bit and hit up a town (one of the white hillside villages) called Grazalema and then head over to local lake in another hillside village called Zahara ...

Llegamos a Cádiz a la 1.00 de la noche del viernes, y no teníamos ni idea de dónde podíamos dejar la caravana. Al final, en la alameda de Apodaca, en pleno centro, mirando al mar y al lado de la movida. Todo un pelotazo. La cosa no podía empezar mejor. Y luego... na noche de diversión, una mañaa de comparsas ...

... a simple task. bit of a misson but i find it in the end. there is a english tour of tio pepe winery at 1.30pm and it looks like the best day to visit the equestain school is tuesday. so it is another few days here for kel, here with the rich sherry drinking oldies, oh well at least i know i can party it up in the next town, fingers crossed anyway. ok so i board the train to tour the winery, they show us the worlds largest weather abne at 40m high or ...

... in Cadiz, we hadn´t booked accommodation previously. We figured that since it was a Sunday, we´d be able to find something...wrong! So, we wondered around the town and popped in every hostel and small hotel we saw. Every single one was full. We ran into our Whelsh friend Adam on the street and decided we´d hunt together...he had the same brilliant idea as us. After about 15 more minutes of looking, we were just about to pop in yet ...

... a comfortable place like this, and the only way they can keep them from doing any damage around there, is to spoil them! Daily the mice at the Gonzáles Byass in Jerez are served tapas and sherry!! Oh the hard life as a mouse in Jerez....! Like any other well-set-up-tour, ours of course ended up with everyone being offered to taste the different flavours of sherry. I have no knowledge of which is good or bad, but I did like the Croft though, I bet it would be ...

... 7 weeks I spent around the UK & Ireland were fun, but I was ready to move on when it was all done. I think the highlight would be the Scotland tour - great scenery, great group. Wales was an unexpected really nice area too - cool towns with castles, pretty outdoors, nice people...I'd definitely recommend it to others. The low point would be my digicam no longer working. Keep checking back as I make my way around mainland Europe...