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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024
      Rain from our window

      Rain!

      9. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

      We have been quite lucky with the weather since we arrived. It has been dry , warm and sunny enough to sit on the terrace in T shirts each afternoon. Until yesterday. Yesterday was heavy cloud all day and in the evening the rain and strong winds started and continued until lunchtime today. We managed to get the laundry mostly dry before the rain started (no tumble driers here, just washing lines and airers) and have not been out all day today.
      Luckily the weather forecast was accurate for once and we prepared by cooking a big fabada stew for two days - chorizo, morcilla (black pudding) and beans cooked in wine. They forecast showers over the next three days but not like the downpour we have had. We are really hoping it improves next week whilst Pete is here - he caught a poor week last year.      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024
      Flamenco in El Pasaje
      Lunch in El Puerto

      El Puerto de Santa Maria

      7. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      After dinner out last night we paid a quick visit to the flamenco bar to check it's still operating - which it is and it wasn't even as crowded as usual. We caught the last 10 mins of the performance and it was as thrilling as always.

      Today we took our first trip out of JEREZ, to one of the other sherry towns - El Puerto de Santa Maria. Its a very easy journey just 10 mins on the local train but, as so often in Spanish towns, the station is on the edge so it's quite a walk to the centre. The main purpose of the visit was to buy a bottle of one of our favourite sherries from the bodega as its difficult to find anywhere else. Also to have lunch at the restaurant run by a daughter from the bodega. It was delicious as always.

      El Puerto is on the mouth of the river Guadelete, and the bodega and restaurant are on the banks of the river, so a great place to sit in the sun for lunch. As the name suggests it was a main port, where lots of the riches from the Spanish colonies came ashore, and from which sherry came down from jerez and shipped all over the world. Today its port is mostly unused, and the town is looking very down at heal.      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024
      Medieval city walls
      Handle of roman oil light. 1c ADVisigoth sarcofagos. 6th c ADIslamic plate 10th cIslamic dish 10th c.Medieval glass perfume bottles 15th c

      Museum

      6. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      Well, I was wrong ! Despite a forecast of mist or fog, this morning was clear blue skies, sunshine and even hot.

      So my walk around the city was really nice, I love wandering through the narrow winding medieval streets, windows open, the sound of flamenco singing from a room somewhere.

      The museum is still really good, small but covering all of jerez history from prehistoric, roman, visigoth, Islamic and Christian periods.

      Well worth a walk in the sunshine!      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024

      A quiet day

      5. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      We had intended to spend a day sitting in the sun today not doing much, but when we woke up we found that clouds had rolled in overnight and it was dull and grey. Also there was a quite a chilly breeze. Eventually the sun came out around lunchtime and it got warmer in the sunshine. Looking forward I think its going to be like this for a few days, then maybe a bit of rain early next week. I think I'll use the time to go for a walk around the city tomorrow and maybe drop into the museum to see some of my favourite things there.Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024
      Win 2-1
      Where are my two juicers?Why are so many of our blogs about food!

      Sunday

      4. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

      The tuna steak last night was fantastic. Tuna is caught all along the coast from Gibraltar up to Cadiz, so its fresh and wonderful! I especially love Mojama, which is very thin slices of dried cured tuna in olive oil, and which I've never seen at home.

      Today I went out early (ish!) To get a Sunday paper. When we first started to come here, one of the street kiosks had english papers, but since the pandemic it closed so now I have to put up with the "diario de jerez" , which is mostly about local politics, which I dont understand, and local football, which I do. The little local shop just round the corner has a great range of foods, including lovely sweet juicy oranges. So it's great to squeeze fresh orange juice for breakfast, but sadly my two helpful orange squeezers are off skiing jn Italy!

      Lunch in a popular square in the sun , in a restaurant which we have been going to for years, and it's still excellent!

      After, a bus out to the football stadium and an pleasant evening watching my team play and win ( just like watching Barnet! )      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024
      Churros and chocolate for breakfast
      Marmalade trees!Inch thick slab of tuna

      Busy first day

      3. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

      First day here we always have to go and have churros and chocolate for breakfast followed by a trip to the Market and a big supermarket shop to stock up on essentials. In the fish market we chose an enormous slab of local wild tuna for dinner tonight.
      As we were exhausted from carrying all the shopping home, despite having a shopping trolley, we decided to treat ourselves to lunch in the sun in the little square behind the apartment.
      This year it is particularly warm for February - last night we could still sit out on our roof terrace at 6.30 enjoying our first sherry.
      This afternoon Tim went on the crucial hunt for Seville oranges still on the tree for us to bring home to make marmalade. He found a fine crop in front of the Alcazar.      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeJerez 2024

      Arrived

      2. februar 2024, Spania ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

      After leaving home at 3,30 (a.m. ugh!) All the arrangements worked really well. We choose to fly to Jerez via Barcelona rather Madrid and that's so much better. , and arrived at the apartment about 3.30 (only 12 hours) in time to sit in the sun for a bit. Coming into Jerez in the taxi now feels like coming home.Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeA few days back in Madeira

      Cruise ships

      19. november 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Funchal has a really good deep water port and it's a favourite of the cruise lines. The city is completely geared up for them and there have been two or three here every day. Then this morning while we were having breakfast this one arrived. We thought the other ones were huge, but this dwarfs all of them. Its the p&o iona, and carries over 5000 passengers and about 2000 crew.

      I think it's time to go home!      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeA few days back in Madeira
      Cathedral
      Wooden mudejar roofMarket

      Saturday

      18. november 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      A quick walk down to the Blandys shop to stock up on madeira to bring home. They have a great scheme where you buy the wine in the shop, but you then pick it up in the Blandys branch at the airport, which is after all the security stuff so you can carry it in your carry-on bags. Brilliant!

      A look around the cathedral which is in the usual heavily decorated Hispanic style, but with a beautiful mudejar style roof, and then to the wonderful central funchal market.

      This afternoon the weather came over with heavy cloud, but still warm and no rain.      Les mer

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    • Tim Lynette WilkinsReisendeA few days back in Madeira
      Bananas in the hotel gardens
      Banana treeHotel pool

      Zzzzz . . .

      17. november 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

      Not doing anything all day.... !

      ....

      Tonight going for dinner at the restaurant of Blandy's, the main bodega of madeira wine, with a view of tasting some different ones to the ones we know. Could be a good night!Les mer

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