El Puerto de Santa Maria

El Puerto de Santa Maria

Well here we are on a camp site just outside of Cadiz. Walked to a local restaurant for supper, not a bad meal but like everything else here, a tad pricey, but we have to stock up on provisions so we had to resort to dining out. Lovely walk back to Herman and a night cap before retiring. We sat chatting for a while and then listened to the stillness of a campsite in slumber, even the hedgehog close by was asleep.

Morning and again the weather is not brilliant but we need to get into town so off on our bikes we went. The town is really interesting, lots of old buildings but nowhere to park our bikes, we stopped for coffee and to ask directions to the local Mercadona – which we understood and also miracles of miracles found the supermarket exactly where it was supposed to be, near the bull ring. The bull ring itself was huge and very interesting despite the macabre sport, which looked like they still practised. The weather by now was sunny and decidedly hot. After returning to the camp site we arranged to use the laundry facilities (not an easy task - and the amount of form filling was beyond reason!!) eventually we arranged to do the washing, which is now drying in the sun. Dieter wants to go and check out the times of the ferries to Cadiz so we will be doing that shortly. I am going to try and post some of the photographs I took earlier in the trip

Fox at the side of the donkey track Sierra Segura

 Lake from the Dam at Tranco one of our overnight stops.

It takes some time to up load these photos so will just do them one at time. We had another cycle ride down to the Ferries to check the departure times - so we are set now to catch an early ferry to Cadiz - time will tell if we do. Dieter is interested in the French couple who have pulled up onto the site next to us, they don't appear to have much in the way of accommodation for the night and he is really intrigued as to their sleeping arrangements!!Watch this space......
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