Sunday 8th June
Yesterday evening chatted with a lovely English couple from Worcester who were parked close to us on the site and who also have a Bessacar motorhome although theirs is brand new and so far trouble free! They visited Cadiz yesterday and very kindly gave us the use of the remainder of their 2 day passes for the open top bus tour of Cadiz. Took the ferry at 1.40 pm across the bay . A bit choppy and very windy on the upper deck but only took approx 20 minutes. Cadiz is a very pretty city with some beautiful old buildings and lovely parks . The beaches were very busy - unsurprisingly as it was the weekend. The bus tour was really great as it meant we could get on and off at different locations around the city and then resume the tour as we pleased although one miserable bus driver failed to pick us up at what we thought was the designated spot so we had a bit of a rush to catch the return ferry. We visited a fort which protected the western side of the city and was very reminiscent of the Alamo. The cathedral looked very impressive but we didn’t go in as time was a bit limited. The city has a system of different coloured lines painted on the sidewalks which are guided tours to follow depending upon your personal interests. One area of the city seems to attract a lot of landscape painters and another area was dedicated to flamenco with statues of famous dancers and a school of flamenco dancing.Returned to Puerto de Santa Maria and visited a local bar where we watched the end of the French Open Men’s final. No prizes for guessing who all the locals were supporting!
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