Leaving Andalucía via Sevilla

After an easy train journey and quick shower I set out for a paseo.  Here is just a small taste of this beautiful city, which is all I have time for on this occasion.  This is San Bartholme, near Plaza Alfalfa. 

As usual I end up in La Bodega, Alfalfa, where the food is great and the service friendly and efficient

I will fly out tomorrow but hope to return to Cadiz in the autumn. Ojala! 

Last morning in Cadiz

Today dawns brightly but I am off to Sevilla this afternoon. I will stay the night then fly out tomorrow.  I pull my trusty case through the market as it opens and say farewell to the Cathedral. 

Then a last bracing walk by the sea to school. 

Last day in Cadiz

I feel sad about leaving soon but buying esparragos lifts my mood.  As does afternoon tea.

Swimming in the sea when the sun comes out is even more therapeutic.  The waves are big but not big enough to knock me over! I can think of nothing better.  Especially after a morning of adverbial clauses!  Then time for a shower and a paseo. Oh, how I love the proper shops! 

I wander the nineteenth century streets with 'todo el mundo', everyone is out and about especially little kids and dogs.   I need a rest and take a cerveza Maier, hecha con esmero, en Bar Canon, Calle Rosario 49, very atmospheric and tiny.  I sit outside at a giant barrel, it is a narrow three way junction but all the traffic of Cadiz seems to come here! 

Then again I am walking and enjoying sea air and return to Playa Caleta and the sunset

Looks like strawberries after spaghetti and esparrago for me

Arcos de la Frontera 7

Arcos is a wonderful place and all done and dusted in three hours. So, I am back at the bus station and find a bus to Jerez, as hoped. I grab a cuppa at the station and it's the cercanias train back to Cadiz.

Arcos de la Frontera 6

Arcos de la Frontera 5

Iglesia de San Pedro 

Arcos de la Frontera 4

  

I come across the Capilla de la Misericordia. This was originally a hospice for women and orphans and dates from 1490.  It's style is Gothic-Gentil.

It's ceiling is interesting

Right near by I happen across the Asociacion de Jubilados y Pensionistas San Miguel in Calle San Pedro. Housed in the Palacio del Mayorazgo, this is an intersting place and a lot of fun. A young couple are running a thriving bar and give me a cafe con leche which I carry round the palace where old folk were socialising,  (me included)