Trips through Spain - Cadiz

Wednesday 24th May 1995

To Cadiz. It is on a spit on the far side of a huge harbour, so it is not surprising the Spanish fleet used to use it. The newer town spreads along the spit and looks like a modern city centre street but on one side, it is only 100 yards to the sea and not much more on the other. The Old Town is at the far end of the spit, which is fatter and very attractive, with narrow streets and a market under cover like Ashton-under-Lyne’s, with meat round the outside with fruit opposite and fish in the middle. The alleys have the posher shops and a lot of university and public buildings. We had a dinner-sized lunch again, of salad, dabs and octopus near the market. Somehow, we went back a different way on a new road not marked on the awful map.

Cathedral Square	Cathedral
Old Town from the New Town	New Town from the Old	Sea walls
Town Hall
	In Old Cadiz
Market Square	Market - fish	Market - sausage
Market - vegetation	The fishwife	Types

It was through constantly changing and largely traffic-free countryside and much quicker than I expected. The views were mostly country and hills but, over the Mediterranean to Africa, they were spectacular. There were several wind-farms generating electricity.