It was a beautiful sunny day in Cadiz today. We spent the day wandering around to get our bearings in the city and find the best playgrounds.
The city is 3000 years old, so the streets are all very narrow. Most of the apartment blocks are 4 stories high, so it's shady in the streets and hard to navigate using landmarks. Our apartment is only 500 m from the water, but you wouldn't know it by walking down our street.
Our first stop this morning was Genoves park on the coast. It had some interesting trees and cool playgrounds, but Jasper fell asleep on the way.
We walked back home along the sea. It was a very calm day today. There is supposedly good surfing here, but definitely not today.
We wandered through the market on the way home. There are two aisles of just fish and shellfish- even a shark! We will have to get more confident with Spanish to be able to buy food at the market.
We had the kids up on the rooftop terrace for a play this afternoon. It's a beautiful spot with views of the city and out to the sea. It's a bit scary having the kids up there since the walls are not very high and it is 4 stories down to the street and courtyard. Ellis is in a climbing phase. She nearly jumped out of her high chair at dinner time.
We took Jasper back to the playground at Genoves park before dinner. It even has a waterfall with a tunnel behind it. I think we'll be spending lots of time there.
This evening we heard some strange music coming from outside. It sounded like a marching band. We couldn't quite see it from our window. Later, Pat went to investigate and found that it was a marching band marching through the streets with a whole bunch of people walking along with them. Not sure exactly what was going on, but maybe it's like Kincardine's Saturday night parades?
No comments:
Post a Comment