{"id":200,"date":"2012-04-02T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:11:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:11:56","slug":"cadiz-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Azura Eastern Med Cruise: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C\u00e1diz, Spain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Weather:<\/strong> Slightly overcast at first, bright and sunny after breakfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another morning where we had to wake Callum up!!\u00a0 We were due to dock in C\u00e1diz at 9am and the ship was scheduled to leave at 3.30pm, so not an awful lot of time to explore if you left it too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weather was a little overcast but we were hopeful the sun would break through.\u00a0 We\u2019d finished breakfast about 8.45am so headed straight up to Deck 19 (on top of the Planet Bar) to see our arrival into C\u00e1diz.\u00a0 The city looked amazing \u2013 very unlike any other Spanish city we\u2019d been to.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We went ashore about 9.45am in the end and decided to follow the 90 minute walking tour in our guide book.\u00a0 Callum was itching to try the HOHO bus, but in hindsight, we were glad we stuck to the walking tour (the HOHO bus could only go around the edge of the city as the streets were all very narrow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our starting point was the Place de Espa\u00f1a<\/strong> \u2013 the huge memorial dedicated to the Constitution (it is its 200th<\/sup> Anniversary this year) which was no more than 100 yards from where the ship docked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From here, we walked down the narrow streets to the Calle Honduras<\/strong> which hugged the sea walls.\u00a0 I felt sure I was going to go flying \u2026 the marble pavement was still wet from overnight rain and flip flops weren\u2019t the best choice of footwear!)<\/p>\n\n\n

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There are some amazing dragon trees in the Alameda Apodaca<\/strong> \u2026 ginormous!\u00a0 We carried on and walked through the Parque Genoves<\/strong> where trees and flowers were just starting to bloom.\u00a0 There were quite a few Seville Orange trees (complete with oranges) and the conifers were very ornately shaped into spirals.\u00a0 Quite a bit of squawking was going on above our heads and we saw the green parakeets busy building their nests high up in the palm trees.<\/p>\n\n\n

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