Cádiz by ferry

Since we had no real plans this weekend, we set aside this morning to go explore Cádiz. Since it's so close, we didn't feel rushed or pressured to see everything, so we basically just wandered around the city.

We got there by taking the ferry from the port in Rota, which left at 11:00 AM this morning. We got there pretty early (at 10:20 AM) because last Saturday we tried to go to Cádiz and by the time we got there at 10:55 AM, all 150 tickets had already been sold and the next ferry didn't leave for 4 hours. I think we were there way too early today though, because even when we boarded the ferry at 11:00 AM there weren't that many people. I think last weekend was probably so busy because it was a long weekend.

Once we were on the ferry, we sat next to some nice old Spanish ladies, and Erin struck up a conversation with them, so we got to speak some Spanish. It turns out that one of the ladies is actually our neighbour - she lives a couple floors beneath us, in the same building!

After 35 minutes on the ferry, we arrived in Cádiz and walked around for a few hours. We found a great little café where we had delicious pastries and coffee. Then we just wandered and did some window shopping... we ended up finding a big parade of some kind with bagpipe music and everything! They had a bit of a float and they were carrying it around with crowds of people trailing behind it. No idea what it was all about, but it was pretty cool. We also ended up finding the city's market, which was completely insane and full of every kind of seafood you could possibly imagine!

Of course, the whole city started to shut down for siesta around 2:00 PM, so we caught the ferry home and had a relaxing afternoon at home, like true Spaniards.