Cadez

Last night while were watching a movie, the captain came on he PA system with "an important announcement". With all the tension about Syria I feared this was a major international event like a terrorist attack.  But it turned out to be that, due to a port workers strike, we would not be able to dock in Portamio, Portugal, and would be docking at Cadiz, Spain instead.

The excursion options were delivered around 10 pm and the one to Seville looked interesting, but it's an 8.5 hour excursion due to a 2 hour bus ride each way. As much as Seville is reportedly a great place to visit, neither Mary nor I were up for another long bus ride.  At the port talk this morning they mentioned that Cadiz has a hop-on-hop-off bus so we decided to take that.  It made for a very enjoyable narrated ride around the town under bright blue skies and moderate temperatures.  As you can see, the town has quite the Arabic influence on its architecture.

The town is renowned for its beautiful beaches as you can see from this picture.  Since we  have a short sail to Gibraltar for tomorrow we are not departing until 11:00 pm so the sail-away will be in the dark.