Day 11 (May 13) Cádiz

This morning we found ourselves in Cádiz, a city we've visited 3 previous times.  We scheduled ourselves on a HAL shore excursion to visit the white villages about an hour south out of town.  The first was Vejor located on a hill and was quite lovely to walk through.  The second was located on the beach at Conil.  We also enjoyed a quick salad lunch:  Angela had tuna with cold fried peppers and I had the octopus.  In between towns we paid a quick visit to the Trafalgar lighthouse site of the famous battle in 1805 between the British and the French/Spanish armadas.  The shore excursion was worth it and it was good to get out of the city for the first time.

 

Back in Cádiz we made our way to the Centro Mercado to purchase some delectable stuffed olives that we had been introduced to several cruise visits ago.  The same merchant is still there and each time he apologizes for them being more expensive than other varieties.  We then wandered around the city in search of WIFI  and found the memorial to the female tobacco workers who rolled cigars for a living sone years ago.

We finally decided to use the WIFI at the Yogurteria on the main square by City Hall.  A 2€ purchase of two Coke Zero's bought us the WIFI code and we finished up our internet for the day before walking back to the ship to get ready for a 5:15pm dinner in the main dining room.  We were seated with David from Slippery Rock, PA who was a retired chemistry professor.  It took 45 minutes to receive our appetizer and that led to us missing the 7pm first performance of the BBC Frozen Planet which was accompanied by the Koningsdam orchestra.  But we made the 8:30pm showing and then started to watch Pirates Of Penzance on the poolside screen.  Watching movies there is like going to the drive-in as one watches from deck lounge chairs.  But we couldn't engage with the play so we went to bed as the clocks were being set back for our stop in Lisbon.