Trips through Spain - San Lucar de Barrameda

Monday 22nd May 1995

(This carries on from our Ronda trip, as we drove from one to the other). It took half an hour to find the hotel, as the town had shut down (even though it was Monday) because of their own very active Feria, of which there was signs (debris) everywhere. We found the Posada de Palacio in the end and it was a delight. Our room, off a courtyard, was 12 feet high, fine in this weather and it had a separate drawing room, bathroom and bog. We went out for something to eat but could only get over-priced ice-creams. At 1930, we went to the front, where there is a string of fish restaurants (this is on the estuary of the Guadalquivir river) and only one was open. This was expensive but, at least, we got something to eat. I had driven there, so we went to Chipiona further round to the south on the coast after. This was looking rather run down on the front, with a lot of villas and blocks of holiday flat boarded and for sale (Se Vende). The pavement of the front was badly cracked but there was a Euro-money sign up about its restoration. The town itself was much livelier.

In San Lucar	In San Lucar	Guadalquivir estuary
In the Posada de Palacio	Posada de Palacio, screenprint by Avis Saltsman	The next day, we visited Seville & the day after, Cadiz before going back to Gibraltar.

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