Last week in Conil

Luckily the weather turned around and the last week has been sunny and warm.   The bus service here is very good. There are a variety of bus lines and a variety of route.  We used the more local bus line, Comes,  to make an overnight trip to Jerez, a day trip to Cadiz and another trip to Jerez to pickup a ental car. 

On the first trip to Jerez, we went  to visit a friend who had moved there recently.  Jerez is "Sherry" in english.  This is where the worlds supply of sherry originates.  Jerez is an authentic Andalusian city, not too big, not too touristy. 

Neat building and nice cafe.  To the left are temporary stands
that were set up for the Semana Santa parades

 

I love these old train stations.

 The next day we finally got a chance to take a longer bike ride out to the nearby "white village"  of Vejer de la Frontera.  From Conil it is a 20K ride, primarily along a paved bike path. The last 8Ks into Vejer were along a secondary road and up a steady 2K climb. Thank goodness for the e-bikes.

Vejer is pretty little town, quite touristy and artsy.  There seemed to be a strong Moroccan influence.

This a the main plaza.  Plaza de España 

We stopped for lunch at this Moroccan restaurant.  There was cool wind so we opted to eat inside. The owner  and staff were very friendly and the food was excellent. Restaurante Taperia Sumia

The following day we made a day trip to Cadiz on the bus.  Only 1 hour from Conil to Cadiz.  The city of Cadiz is located to a narrow peninsular. Located on the bay side of the peninsular  is a huge port. On the ocean side  is a long string of beaches. There were lots of surfers in the water. It is an interesting place to visit.

A Praying Mantis  appeared on our porch yesterday evening. It awkwardly made it's way slowly across the floor and under the couch.  I'm not sure if this one was injured or not but it has very unsteady gait.  

        We spend a few hours on the beach this week. The temperature got up to about 24 degrees. 

Some interesting art on the side of one of the beach bars

This is Linda's beach art.

Linda coming back after looking for more shells.

There is a nice path along the cliff that we can use to walk back to the house from town.

We are getting packed up to leave Conil in the morning.  We had been trying to sell our e-bikes but didn't get any offers, so we are going to put them back in storage.  We took the bus into Jerez this afternoon and the train from Jerez to the airport. There we rented a car and drove back to Conil. I just fished loading the bikes and in the morning we will take them and leave them on a friend's farm until we decide what to do with them.    We have a hotel room rented near the airport for tomorrow night.   The next morning we are flying to Rome.