Mon 14.May.2018
Andalusia, Spain
Tonight and tomorrow left here in Sardegna. Let's see if I can get a
page of April's Spain pix up before I leave.
Tonight's pictures are from smaller towns at the very western end of Andalusia,
where the ocean is the Atlantic, not the Mediterranean. This region is called the
Costa de la Luz, the Coast of Light.
El Puerto de Santa Maria
Across Cadiz Bay from the major port of... well, Cadiz.
The southwest corner of Spain in a sense. If you go further south,
you are not as far west. If you go further west, you are not as far south.
Clear as mud, right?
A color photo of a sepia scene! A small mud flat by the ocean.
I spent a week here last year, and liked it enough to come back. No major
sights to tell your friends about - just a relaxed small city with several
beaches, a barber shop, and at least two laundromats, all of which I
availed myself of.
And marinas - heavy on the marinas.
Apple Thief Cider. I like the name.
The neighborhood of my friendly, family-operated hotel-cum-restaurant. We
are outside the historic center here - gerneric residential high-rises. The
more picturesque parts of town are within five minutes walk. One of the beaches
is a similar distance in the opposite direction. A big supermarket is at the end
of the block. A comfy neighborhood!
Keys and Footwear
Why do key making and shoe repair seem to go together. I've noticed a lot
of shops that advertise both, and nothing else. Do they both involve a
grinding wheel? I mean, keys and shoes?!?
Another mystery on a sign. Stop signs in Mexico say ALTO.
Why not? It means STOP in Spanish. Stop signs in Puerto Rico say PARE,
which means the same thing. So why do stop signs in Spain say STOP
in English?
Arcos de la Frontera
One of the famous White Hill Towns of southwestern Andalusia.
I spent a week here in an apartment with no internet connection.
An otherwise very nice apartment, and I guess I can't complain. I found a
couple of bars with wi-fi, but no place to just sit down and hang out.
Anyway, Arcos is a small town with a very picturesque location. It
gets short shrift here with just this one picture.
Jerez de la Frontera
The birthplace and namesake of Sherry wine. A standard day trip for
package tours from Sevilla, to visit the dozen or more sherry wineries
(bodegas) here.
I like Jerez well enough to visit willingly. That said, I really came
here this year so I could get the crack-of-dawn bullet train to go to
Barcelona to fly the next morning to Sardegna, where I am now.
Now I'd be up to date if I could get a page of Sardegna pictures up
before I leave the morning after tomorrow. Can you say snowballs?
Do you know what the hand towels at your hotel are doing?
My try at Classic Photographer For A Day.