Prestige Palmera Plaza Hotel Jerez De La Frontera

... most Boho hostel you'll ever set your eyes on. It was an amazing first-hostel experience, I'll tell you that. Blew away all my expectations! It was a tall slender building that was very old. The downstairs lobby/kitchen area had a large table and wrap-around seat with plenty of pillows and tons of space. Ok this is going to be way too difficult to explain, therefore, please just take a good look at the photos! Just know that they had really cool ...

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 ...

... of the sweetest sherry called "Nectar" for 8 Euro. I really didn’t like their regular sherry though. They were pretty cool though. When celebrities or royalty come visit, they have them sign a barrel of Tio Pepe instead of signing a guestbook! And they have a family of mice that are sherry connoisseurs. One of the distillery ...

... the way we stopped in Olvera so Mike could get his photo of the village and church tower. We arrived to Nerja very late and couldn't plug in the address in our handy-dandy gps - so we had to call the owner in the UK to give us directions. it was kind of late by the time we got to the house (after midnight). ugh! this was a long, long day! But, we're excited to be at the beach for the next 7 days. Shae can't wait to get her feet wet in the mediterranean.

... br> Next stop was the most southern town on the Iberian peninsula, Terifa. This is the windsurfing capital of Europe that attracts sailboarders from all over the continent in VW vans. The area has miles of beach, strong constant winds, and lots of bars. We stopped for lunch and checked out a Moorish castle ruin right outside the “Closest European Restaurant to Africa”. I guess it was ...

... their way home, to look for somewhere to eat. In the pedestrianised area there was a marquee with an ice rink and the whole town was brightly decorated for Christmas. Workmen were 'assembling' a Christmas tree from bottles, very apt as Jerez is Spain's major sherry producing region. We found a small bar in the town centre and enjoyed sherry and tapas, before wandering back to the hotel in the cold, around 7deg, night air for another good ...

... if you count both weekends). Cadiz is a decently-sized town and is approximately two hours from Sevilla. Everyone has two goals in mind during Carnival: one, to wear the most flamboyant, intricate, and original costume and two, to forget the night beforehand through endless beer consumption I came well-prepared in large blue gown with gold lace around the chest and arms. I wore a classic American detective's hat, harkening back to ...

... of Cadiz and the odd lodging of Casa de Miguel. Kelly and I then took advantage of the fact that there just isn´t that much to see or do in Cadiz. This was basicly a perfect day. We went to the beach and for a fleeting hour, thought that we might actually have had the best bodies on the beach. This has never happend before, and this will never happen again, so we found it really funny. We spent the morning there until the sand became so crowded with people that it was just ...

... a couple of beers for 7 Euros. Contented I returned to my room and after reading for a short while slept like a log. I didn´t wake up till 10.30 and headed straight out to the old town where I purchased churros and coffee to start the day. I went straight to the Tio Pepe Sherry Bodega where I forgot to use my student card and paid full wack to get in (not too much though) need to remember that for the future. Once on the tour I spied another solo Ingles and got ...

... of sunflowers. Lovely!! We arrived at Cadiz at 2.45pm and struggled to get a taxi, we meet two nice Italian girls who let us share their taxi. We arrived at our hostel and got organised. We knew this place would be "different" because when i phoned to reserve the man sang everything down the phone to me...well we were right...it was nothing like we´ve experienced before! Absolute madness!!! We got into our room to discover someone ...