Cadiz - but a different part

Yes, we moved to another bnb in Cadiz, about 7 blocks away from the first one.  This was the bnb that we chose originally.  Unfortunately, there was some mechanical issue that had to be resolved, but  now here we are!  This is one of the views from our second-floor (1st floor to the Spanish), corner apartment - Plaza de San Antonio, the site of the Church of San Antonio which is to the left behind a big tree in the first photo.

Plaza de San Antonio

Church of San Antonio.  Yes, the bells ring on the hour and the half-hour all day.  But,  no bells at night!  I love the Spanish.

View of our street from the Plaza

That's our window on the 2nd floor.  We are pretty cozy here and I am particularly delighted.

This apartment is much nicer, smells nicer (no sewer gas, so far) or crumbling plaster dust everywhere, and it is just fun to stand or sit at the window and watch the world go by in the Plaza or on the busy shopping street below.  Oddly, with the shutters closed and the air conditioning on tonight, we don't hear much of the noise from the street.  But, you could participate when the huge windows are wide open and the gentle breeze is floating through the apartment.  It makes me feel just a little like Juliet on the balcony.  (Apparently there has been a cricket problem in the area, which is just gotten under control.  So, we were told to keep the windows closed at night to keep the crickets out.  You can still hear them out there singing, but thank goodness they are not singing inside, too.)

After settling in and washing a load of clothes (everywhere we go, literally, and very few apartments have dryers) and of course participating in the siesta tradition, we ventured out at the dinner hour (8 pm) to find some delicious Spanish food.  This time it was at a sidewalk cafe that had the menu printed in English, German, Swedish, French, and a few other languages - this is a cruise port after all.  The food was wonderful, but we did find ourselves surrounded mainly by English, Germans, Swedes, and French.  

The best part, though, was stumbling upon the Cadiz Cathedral.  It took 116 years (between the 18th and 19th centuries) to build it, so it is part Baroque-style and part neo-classical.  That dome (toward the back) is covered with golden tiles and the whole church backs up to the waterfront.

Tomorrow, we plan to take the very touristy Cadiz hop-on-hop-off bus around the whole peninsula to find out what we have missed.  I want to see some of the 127 watchtowers that are said to still stand in the city.  There were originally over 180 of them and it boggles my mind that 127 are still here after all these hundreds of years.  I mean Americans just don't keep the old buildings around - 20 years, maybe.

More Cadiz photos soon.  Adios.