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El Puerto: Hola and adios in the same breath

A travel blog entry by fruitarefriends

... such as myself.So now I'm on-route to Morocco. Damn Spanish public holiday today so that has already messed up my carefully planned walk-ferry-bus-walk-ferry-walk that will hopefully land me at a hostel in Tangier. I'm ready for more warmth, wackiness, cultural differences, new foods, fellow travelers and mint tea! I'm a bit weary of being a solo lady but I'm sure I'll meet some cool people to hangs with me.Crazy Rainbow Unicorn ...

Nelson's Waterloo

A travel blog entry by capt.pancake

... a pork tenderloin dish. Somewhere along the line someone got confuddled and we both ended up with different tuna dishes. They were very good so........

Friday and we met Chris and Charles in the site restaurant for breakfast. Just as we were finishing off the garage called to say the car was ready followed by a call from ADAC to say the same. Charles and Chris insisted that they take us up to Cadiz to collect the car so off we went.
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Cadiz and El Puerto

A travel blog entry by wrightsofnapier

... interspersed with plazas. The old town is quite small so you're never too far away from the sea. The cathedral was beautiful and we had an excellent Pescados frittas lunch served in a paper cone for . So good that I went back for more calamari and ate my fill. We wandered around the town and ended up at the main beach which the boys loved although it too cold for a swim ...

Fixing the roof and a calamari nosh-up

A travel blog entry by roberton

... to the builders' merchant" chapter, so we resorted to the international language of "bloke". Just so you know for next time, self-tapping bolts are "tornillo auto-taladro". Cathy meanwhile, showed us the cochineal beetles on local cacti and helped the vet in theatre. The beetles are the source of an early and classic red dye. In theatre, they opened-up a very poorly old dog to try to find out why it was so ill. It turned out to be horribly cancerous ...

Thanksgiving in Cadiz, by Chris Lunsford

A travel blog entry by wareameye

... whose first watchman, Antonio Tavira, gave it is name. In 1778 the tower was appointed the official watchtower for the town, it being at that time, the highest lookout point in the area.

The highlight of todays tour was clearly visiting The CAMERA OBSCURA in the Torre Tavira. The CAMERA OBSCURA projects a brilliant moving image of ...