Trujillo Jerez De La Frontera

Hello again!
As I said previously, I'm going to jump around a bit and not just go day by day in this blog. Therefore, this entry begins on September 19th on a train heading to Cadiz, Spain. This was my first adventure in Spain with my friends outside of Cordoba, my first excursion.
Honestly, I can't even remember exactly how I met all the people I've become close with on this trip. Well, I guess that's not true. I already told you how I met ...

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 ...

We got up really early (for us vacationers). It was about 8:15am. We decided we would drive 2 hours to a city called Jerez de la Frontera to see the famous dancing horses of Jerez. The tour guide said it was worth the drive... We arrived to another city. Not as big as Seville, but a city nonetheless. Shae was super excited to see the dancing horses. The show started at noon and lasted 1.5 hours. Shae lasted about 20 minutes - which was pretty good for her ...

... came out of the safe port in Cadiz. British naval-battle tactics were fast and aggressive, cutting through the French line and reining hell into the lightly defended aft of the French ships; the cannonballs mowed through everything up the length of the ship, leaving a bloodbath – then turning to deliver mercilessly broadsides to the crippled ships. Flotsam & bodies washed up on Cape ...

... are really into the gay culture, which is cool, but I've never figured out why. So everyone is just drinking outside so we stopped into a bar to get our share as well. They sold big jugs of Coke, a bottle of whiskey, ice, and four plastic glasses to you for 18 euroso we bought that to share amongst our friends. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but it seriously is really common to just mix drinks in the street over here, they call it "botellóna". So for most ...

... as i look out the window to see what the weather is like, a little cloudy but warm (20 degrees) as usual already. i have my breakfast in my room, yogurt and muesli that i brought last night from the super market, a little bit to be a cheap **** and also to be healthy as here in spain breaky at a cafe consists of pastries and coffee. i will definatly go for a coffee soon though. once i get ready for the day, guide book check, camera check, water bottle check ...

... 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 ...

... horses and dressed up (drunken) people, there was also a show ground with competitions and sale stands with horses from all over the World. It ended up turning into a long, but very entertaining and colourful day with a lot of new expressions. The photos I took that day definitely say more than words. Especially how colourful the festival was, is hard to describe. Wow, should sum up the day pretty well...

... songs. I flew out of Dublin to Liverpool on April 6 and caught trains to Conwy (in Wales). It´s a cool little town with a castle and medieval wall around it. I stayed in a B&B there - it´s nice to get your own room now and then. The next day I took buses around the Snowdonia region to Caernarfon (another city with cool castle and medieval walls) and by Mt Snowdon. While walking along in Caernarfon, I glanced and saw what I ...