Playa Victoria Cádiz
Plaza Ingeniero La Cierva 4 Cádiz, Costa de la Luz, Andalusia, 11010, Spain and Canary Islands
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Hanibal's City on the Southern Altlantic Coast
We arrived last night in Cadiz. The weather was sunny (upper 60's) but the wind on the beach was blowing about 20 mi per hour. Appearantly, all the heathens in Spain come to Cadiz for Easter week while their pious brethren are in Seville and Cordoba pondering their sins of last year. Despite the brisk temperatures the revelers seemed to think they …
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3000 Year Old City
Today we drove to Cadiz. It is known as the oldest city in Europe. We had wanted to take the ferry from Rota; however, because of it being Christmas Eve, the schedule did not allow us enough time to tour the town. When we walked along the waterfront yesterday, we noticed we could see the town of Cadiz. We did not notice that the last time we were here.
Very uncharacteristically, we did not wake up today until about 08:00. After ...
Jerez
... We stopped in at a crowded restaurant in the main square called Tio Pepe. We all had the menu of the day, which was paella and beef cooked in sherry. Both were delicious except I didn't make the kids eat the seafood. Unless you know us and how we spend our summers you would 1) never understand and 2) probably never believe my fishing stories anyway. I found the clams a bit on the strong side.
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Salty Air
... of the sweet sherry is shipped to the states. It was interesting to learn that sherry has 15% alcohol content. The aging process involves mixing the older product with new product. So, we actually had a small percentage of 100 year old sherry.
The next tour stop was to Torre Tavira. This is a tower in Cadiz that houses a camara oscura. I am not sure if I have ever seen a camera ...
Crashin' Cádiz: Carnaval Style
After leaving Jerez, we immediately set our sights for Cadiz. The plan was to arrive in Cadiz at around dinner time, eat, put on our costumes, partake in the Carnaval festivities, and rendezvous back at the bus around 4am to head all the way back to Chipiona (an approx. 1.5hr bus ride), to return to our hostel for a few hours of sleep. It really didn't make much sense at the time, and still doesn't, for that matter. Despite the grumblings regarding ...



