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Hello Cadiz! I’d not heard us arriving into the port of Cadiz, the sea state has been so calm it’s easy to forget you’re actually onboard a ship at sea. When I woke we had already docked and the great thing about arriving in Cadiz is we were right in the city. We had a walking tour booked for today, so we just had a light breakfast in the restaurant, I had bircher muesli and a strangely sticky croissant, Jane, fruit and yoghourt and also one of the strangely sticky croissants.
The tour we had booked was the “Cadiz like a local” walking tour. We headed off the ship and through the port to meet our guide Jaun-Antonio. It was a small group of six Cunarders which is a nice number when walking around as we didn’t get in the way when stopped unlike larger groups. The tour itself was interesting and informative, lasting about 4 hours with lunch included. Lunch was a tasty selection of local delicacies, crispy pork belly, a creamy cold tomato soup, boiled prawns, and potatoes dressed with onion and olive oil, paella and a creme caramel like dessert. The guided part of the tour walked us through the old town ending up at the market, where we had an hour’s free time to browse, shop and grab refreshments. We did all of this, I love browsing a market especially a fish market and Cadiz’s is one of the best, where we bought some fat olives, some pimento and had a glass of sherry, after all “when in Cadiz…..”. After the tour it was time to waddle back to the ship for a lie down. We did intend to head up to the Grills Deck to get some sun but after 10 minutes I could hear a quiet huffing coming from Jane’s side of the bed.
Christmas is slowly arriving with more trees appearing daily and the ship is slowly getting a festive feel
After a bit of a snooze, Jane made the executive decision not to go to the Commodore Club for our usual afternoon tipple, but to try the Grills Lounge pre-dinner instead. The Grills Lounge is probably the most disappointing space on the whole ship. Being stuck between the two Grills restaurants it has no view out, the only natural light is a central skylight which makes the whole room very dark and it has the most uncomfortable seats of any area we’ve discovered so far a mixture of small upright and wide slippy with no support all of which are too low. We didn’t finish our pre-dinner drinks there opting instead to take them into the restaurant with us instead. Dinner was lovely though Duck a l’Orange prepared at the table.