Cádiz is all about the sea. If you walk the streets of the old town in any given direction, within ten minutes you’re confronted by it. It’s surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic, with only a narrow strip of land keeping it attached to the Spanish mainland. It’s almost magnetic, the way it draws…
Month: December 2016
Cribs
The locals love their cribs. You’ll see them in every shop window, most stores have one, and they can appear in the oddest of places. This one is in the train station in Seville, where they availed of the opportunity to promote the 20th anniversary of the train station revamp along with the birth of…
Mutton Monday
This should be subtitled “Reasons why Cádiz is like Galway”….so this is Reason #1. Cádiz has an island with a lighthouse, and if you squint your eyes (and it’s dark…), it kind of looks like dear old Mutton Island. There’s a nice long causeway onto the island that hordes of locals walk along, taking the…
Sunday surfers and sufferers
Sunday December 18th Cádiz is a catholic city, and signs of it are everywhere. There is a large Cathedral in the centre and there seems to be churches at every turn. In case they don’t manage to fit a church into a street they make sure to stick in some visual reminder – a poke…
Flamenco Women – Saturday 17th Dec
This is what dinner looked light tonight – some lovely hot stew with a glass of beer….Just enough to get the appetite going. Enough to get me going out looking for more tapas…. While rambling (lost) around the calle de Cádiz tonight I…
Cadiz Eve
Just getting the bags sorted before hopping on el GoBus to el aeropuerto de Dublin. Already I feel my consumption of Spanish wine from Aldi’s finest cellars beginning to bear fruit. Words like café con leche and dos cervezas are just tripping/dripping off the tongue. By the time the train rolls out of Estacion de…
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Vamos a Cadiz
…watch this space…. They love to surf here…and sure tis no wonder. Look at those lovely rolling Atlantic waves, sea temperatures in winter of 14 degrees (that’s the water temperature…) and the air temperature hitting 16 -19 degrees at the height of the sun.
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