Cadiz

Today we took a train from Jerez to Cadiz, a trip of around 40kms and 45 minutes at a cost of only €8.10 return each

Cadiz was founded by the Phoenicians in 1104BC and is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Spain and one of the oldest in Western Europe and was a delight to visit. It sits on a peninsula of only 12.10km2 and with Government regulations prohibiting reclaiming of land it has no chance of expanding.

The first plaza that we came to that sits in front of the town hall was as clean a plaza as any with palm trees on either side - not surprisingly as Phoenicia means "land of palm trees"

The narrow streets in the Barrio del Populo area of the Old Town were Editawash with tourists and locals as we passed the Cathedral

 

and arrived at the Mercado which was the best Mercado of its type that we can remember visiting.

If you wanted fish it was available in abundance...

...any species you could think of and some that you couldn't 

As well there were colourful fruit and vegetable stalls

One could spend many hours watching the daily life that exists in these markets but we had to move on so went to the outer area of town being the coast

with the beautiful blue water,

the Castillo San Sebastián and hundreds of swimmers enjoying what is quite an idyllic part of Spain

One of the sunbathers thought she had something special to show as she gave them a good massage

We spent quite sometime wandering back through the Old Town before catching the train back to Jerez - did I say we looked into quite a few shops as well

An early meal in Jerez before heading back to the hotel to have a dip in the pool before it closed at 8pm finished a very enjoyable day.