As you can see from the picture we have made it to the west coast of Spain.  Cadiz in fact.

We left Seville with quite a bit of unfinished business.  There is so much to see in these old cities, but even with six weeks of holiday you can’t do Southern Spain complete justice.  There is just SO much to see.  It’s extraordinarily ancient.

Cadiz is in fact Europe’s oldest city, it’s first port and where Christopher Columbus set off from to discover the Americas.   If you expand the picture you can see at the end of the “bathers” the Cathderal with the gorgeous golden domes.  The dome was tiled and painted gold to reflect the sun to guide the ships into port returning with their finds from the Americas.

To the left of the Cathedral you can see the Stevedores houses in soft pastel shades showing a West Indian – Carribean influence.

Cadiz was the third most important port in the entire Roman Empire and the only Spanish City not to be taken by Napoleon.  Here ends the short history lesson as this is as much as I can remember from my City Tour bus trip!  As for modern day – it was one of the easiest Spanish cities to get in and out of as there’s only one way in and one way out.  It’s perched on the end of a long narrow peninsula which is covered with apartments catering to the Spanish who come here in summer to escape the heat of Spain’s interior.  And no doubt many a Brit.