Western Mediterranean - Cadiz Page

Wednesday 20th May

Land at last! Up at 0625. It was still dark on deck but the sky was clearly all blue & it was slightly warm, which built up to 27°C during the day. They have nearly built a posh new bridge to Cadiz, which should move the traffic jam from one end of the town to the other but I don’t suppose they will have much change out of a billion Euros.

Breakfast at 7 and mustered at 07:45 for the coach trip to Seville, which takes 1 3/4 hours with a pee stop. There is a bit of a hike from the coach park to the Alcazar. We passed Carmen’s cigarette factory on the way & the Hotel Alphonso XIII, he who started to seriously beat back the Moors.

"Carmen's" cigarette factory	Hotel Alphonso XIII	Cathedral & Alcazar share a square
Just in the gate leading to...	...a garden & old wall	Other side of the old wall
The main entrance opposite the old wall	Detail of the entrance carving	Inside is this light well
Moorish or Moorish style architectural details
The enchanting cloister	Detail of Isabella roundel	Christian detail by Moorish craftsmen
Paterning close up...	...looks different at a distance	The Gardens from the tapestries below
Three tapestries of Spanish valour
Panorama of the inner garden from the terrace
The Terrace above the inner garden	The outer garden	Cathedral minaret from the Alcazar

I think we got a more thorough tour of the palace this time. The Cathedral tower is the Moorish minaret modified. We had some free time for a coffee (€3 for 2) & photos before going to a restaurant, where we got a lot of starters before our main course of pork & two bottles of wine between 4, the other 2 abstaining on a table of 6. They were slow serving & this cascaded down the time to make us late at the ship, getting there ten minutes before we cast off a little late.

The outer wall of the Alcazar	The Cathedral minaret from the square	In the Cathedral Square
Regional parliament	Round the city	Round the city
Nosy look in someone's house	Tasteful modern development	1929 Spanish-American Fair site