Our day was planned we were catching the train to Seville. Off to the station we trotted - well ambled! At the ticket office in my limited Spanish I asked for two return tickets to Seville. What time I was asked. The 9:14 please. No! I then realised that all the seats were booked unless I wanted to go at 2pm. Manana (tomorrow) I asked. Si,Si so tickets were bought.
Not wanting to return home at 9am I asked how long it took to go to Cadiz - 45 minutes and tbere was a train within 20 mins - tickets for Cadiz please. I think the guy was pretty impressed with our quick decision making. So we were off to Cadiz rather unexpectedly! Went onto the platform for the train when :
1. a sign came up saying exit immediately - my Spanish is getting better &
2. A guy came up asking us about a train - we had to shrug our shoulders and say sorry ' No hablo espanol!' He then spoke to someone else who indicated that his train was on another platform. Well that put us in a bit of a panic, showed the same guy our ticket and he indicated that we were on the wrong platform. We were off , like greyhounds out of the gate, to the next platform and on reaching the train collapsed in a heap! On regaining our breathe we saw a train arrive on the platform we had left!!
During our journey we did find that we should have caught the other train but all was well as this one was also going to Cadiz! It was an interesting trip mainly through flat lands although there were lots of waterways - not sure of their purpose. We travelled beside the beach into the station and, although sunny, it looked rather cold.
We made our way into the centre and found it a very interesting place.
After a cuppa and the usual discussion about how disgusted we were by the amount of smoking everywhere including restaurants - no wonder we are coughing our lungs up an so appreciate the no smoking in certain areas policy.
We came across Cadiz cathedral and ventured inside. So much history and it looks like money is needed to restore the ceilings - there was netting up to stop any of it falling on your head!
we wandered tnrough the streets until we reached the sea.
Not wanting to return home at 9am I asked how long it took to go to Cadiz - 45 minutes and tbere was a train within 20 mins - tickets for Cadiz please. I think the guy was pretty impressed with our quick decision making. So we were off to Cadiz rather unexpectedly! Went onto the platform for the train when :
1. a sign came up saying exit immediately - my Spanish is getting better &
2. A guy came up asking us about a train - we had to shrug our shoulders and say sorry ' No hablo espanol!' He then spoke to someone else who indicated that his train was on another platform. Well that put us in a bit of a panic, showed the same guy our ticket and he indicated that we were on the wrong platform. We were off , like greyhounds out of the gate, to the next platform and on reaching the train collapsed in a heap! On regaining our breathe we saw a train arrive on the platform we had left!!
During our journey we did find that we should have caught the other train but all was well as this one was also going to Cadiz! It was an interesting trip mainly through flat lands although there were lots of waterways - not sure of their purpose. We travelled beside the beach into the station and, although sunny, it looked rather cold.
We made our way into the centre and found it a very interesting place.
We came across Cadiz cathedral and ventured inside. So much history and it looks like money is needed to restore the ceilings - there was netting up to stop any of it falling on your head!
we wandered tnrough the streets until we reached the sea.
We had a great day with an awesome tapas lunch - with finally a sherry we liked! Well we are in the sherry region! Finally found our way back to the station and got on the correct train, which luckily terminated at Jerez so no problems there! Hopefully we make it to Seville!!
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