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  • Day 28

    Leaving Jerez

    February 21, 2019 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 12 °C

    So tomorrow we are leaving. I can't believe the time has gone so quickly, but then it always does. We get a train from Jerez to Cadiz and we should arrive at our apartment in Cadiz around midday, but we may need to wait before we can get into the apartment - sounds like an excuse for lunch in the sun somewhere! I haven't heard the storks clacking at all this week so maybe the young ones are all grown up and left home. I don't know what they do - do they go off and build another nest somewhere, or migrate? Normally storks arrive here from North Africa in late winter and then nest here, but apparently many of them now stay here all winter anyway. So do they then migrate further ? - I would think not - north of here is extramadura, which renowned for being arid, barren and very hot in summer, whereas the stretch of Andulcia from Sevilla-Jerez-Cadiz has lots of marshy wetlands full of food like frogs and lizards.Read more