CADIZ

We pulled into port at around 745 am on January 28th. That was probably the earliest I have ever woken up by choice! I couldn’t wait to see dry land! After we docked my roommate and I immediately ran up to the 5th floor to get off the boat. We finally got off at around 10:30 from there we were off to explore the town! We walked all over looking at everything, stopping to take pictures everywhere, talking to random Spanish people to try and find some good cafes, it was just a whirlwind of excitement. We stopped at quite a few cafes I ordered Coca Cola Light and whatever the waiter said was his favorite dish at all of them! We walked all over looking for a place to grab lunch and finally settled on eating at Le Catedral. It was located right in front of the beautiful Cathedral of Cadiz. The Cathedral exterior is made out of all different shades of stone. The bottom half is a dark almost brownish stone and the top is like a white stone. It looks a little awkward at first. I later found out this was because the Cathedral was built over a period of 120 years! They kept running out of money so they would have to halt production then start back up. The result was a cathedral built with many different architectural styles and designs! Pretty interesting. One interesting funny fact about Cadiz is that there are weird lines painted on the floor. All over the town are different color lines painted on the stone alleys. Purple, red, orange, yellow lines all these paths leading to god knows where. Well I found out that they are there for the tourists. All over Cadiz these lines are painted leading different routes to the tourist center! Basically the people of Cadiz decided to paint these ugly lines on the floors so that us tourists wouldn’t get lost! After lunch I went on an orientation tour of the city. We visited all over the city but one of the coolest things was the beach! I was standing in the exact spot that Halle Berry was in the James Bond movie. The scene where she runs out of the water on the beach! Ya that one, they filmed it in Cadiz. They have free internet stationed all over in the public plazas. Local people took pictures of all of us semester at sea kids with our computers in the squares! You should have seen it, very funny site 50 kids sitting on the floors laptop in hands updating blogs, skyping, checking their emails, facebooking! With all those people you can imagine how slow the internet was, that’s why I wasn’t able to upload very many pictures. I tried uploading a bunch and then only a few would work. So the pictures that did work are just totally random they aren’t the best or my favorites or anything!