Monasterio San Miguel Hotel Cádiz

... went in the ocean while in Spain. Reid, Aaron, Shannon, Lizzy, and I braved the cold and made our way out into the sea, The water was beautiful,as was the beach; and it was such a relaxing day. We picniced, sunbathed, and talked the afternoon away. We also learned on this trip that buying food from the market is a lot cheaper than eating out everyday (this is also something I should probably take back with me to SD). We walked back late in the ...

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! <br><br>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 ...

... discover I have burnt my back, but it doesn't look too bad. <br><br>After a nice cold Coka Light (Diet Coke), we head to the other beach to find our friends. We walk past hundreds and hundreds of mostly-naked, super-brown Spaniards, but see no sign of our group. Liz and I start making a list of how we would recognize our group:<br>1. The girls will all be wearing tops.<br>2. The boys will not be wearing speedo's.<br>3. They will be mostly blonde ...

... Spanish side wasn&#8217;t overly-motivated to make it easy for tourists to enter Gibraltar. It looked like at least an hour wait, and it was hot, so after a u-turn, and a picture on the way out, and ticked Gibraltar off the &#8220;Saw It&#8221; list and headed north, up the coast. But the history and symbol of Gibraltar as entrance to Mare Nostrum and as a wartime bunker were not lost on me&#8230;<br ...

... needs to land or take off the road is closed, causing even more chaos at the border. Then you hit the town. Gibraltar has a population of about 30,000, squeezed into a strip of land at the base of the rock about 500 yards wide by 2 miles long. It would seem that each member of the population owns at least three cars. Every square inch of land is parked upon. Most cars don't look as if they have moved for months, probably because ...

... Spanish, Cadiz cats must have evolved or have some fish in them because the water didn't seem to bother them. After a short break back on the ship, ashley, stef, two new friends, and myself headed back out to Cadiz for the night. We had dinner at a tapas bar right outside the Cathedral and then went to get ice cream afterwards. Ashley and I split a fresh Cadiz fish plate which was really good. Some of the fish pieces ...

On est donc parties de Sevilla et on a pris le train... longtemps. Pour finalement arriver, trois heures et demie plus tard, a Cadiz, sur le bord de l'ocean. Le plan etait de rester deux jours, deux nuits, pour ensuite aller vite vite a Malaga, avant Grenade. On voulait aussi aller deux fois a la plage... Bon, on est donc arrivees! on s'est rendues a l'auberge... une vraie auberge de jeunesse... dans sa plus pure expression... pour ceux qui voyagent seuls ...

... doen. Allemaal goe en wel, tot dat Javi (ne spanjaard) zijn presentatie moest doen. Meneer had niks voorbereid, geen handouts of powerpoint (zoals iedereen had gemaakt) en moest constant zijn tekst terugnemen en dingen vragen aan de prof om zijn uitleg verder te kunnen zetten. Bovendien konden we aan zijn ogen zien dat em gesmoord had, dus maw meneer stond stoned voor de klas, het werd zelfs zo erg dat em op den duur ni meer wist of de letter H nu voor of na de letter J kwam, toen em ...