Jerez 2019

januari - maart 2019

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- 25 jan. 2019
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.683124, -6.1376236°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 1
Arrived
25 januari 2019, Spanje ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Straight forward journey for once and we arrived at the apartment just on midday local time, in time to sit in the sun in the square and get some tapas.
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- 26 jan. 2019 20:36
- 🌙 11 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.683155, -6.13760336°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 2
Settling in
26 januari 2019, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
This morning we walked down to our favourite cafe in the market square to get churros and chocolate for breakfast and, horror, it's closed for refurbishments! Natalie will be distraught!. Fortunately the next door cafe has stepped up and their churros is almost as good. Resting this afternoon in the sun , with a view of storks nesting on the nearby church steeple. Every time mummy stork arrives all you can hear is the beaks of the baby storks clacking to say me, me, me ! ( they are mute so they shout by clacking their beaks).Meer informatie
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- 29 jan. 2019 14:15
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.68309, -6.13761136°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 5
Oh Wow! Just ... Oh Wow!
29 januari 2019, Spanje ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Yesterday, like every day so far, was sunny, warm and clear blue skies, so I went for a wander around in the afternoon, revisiting places like the castle and the cathedral, seeing what's new and what's the same. There are a lot of buildings refurbished in the centre and lots more new or refurbished to rent as holiday lets. The local paper has articles about people being unhappy that these are taking priority over residents who want new homes in the centre. Then we stayed in last night glued to the radio to listen to the FA cup match between Barnet and Brentford, dubbed "the battle of the Bees", or as Barnet fans would put it "real Bees vs fake Bees".
With Barnet being the last non-league team in it, it got huge amounts of coverage, although only on BT on TV, and full coverage on the radio. The Hive was packed with a capacity crowd of 6,250, and the noise was immense even over the radio (where are all these people for normal league games when we just get maybe 1,200?) It was a fantastic game, swinging first one way and then the other, and Brentford, despite being a championship team over 70 places higher than Barnet knew they had been in a match. In the end it was a 3-3 draw and could have easily been more either way, and we have to do it all again at Brentford next week. Let's hope some of that magic rubs off on our league form , which has been patchy to put it politely! It would so good to see and hear the Hive rocking again!Meer informatie
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- 31 jan. 2019 15:22
- 🌬 16 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.68311, -6.1376236°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 7
Restaurants
31 januari 2019, Spanje ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
One benefit of the rise in tourism is that there are more restaurants opening and some that used to close for the winter are staying open. On the first night we tried a new one just down our street, called Carmela, where the food was good but the red wine not very, should have stuck to sherry. On Saturday they are having a flamenco concert so we will go see. Two of our favourites from 3 years ago that were being renovated last year are now open again and good as ever - VinaT and Almacen. We went to Almacen last night - it's in an old store that has beautiful wooden ceiling and tiled floor. We spent ages looking at the tiling pattern and realised it's just one tile used in different orientations! Very impressive. It's due to rain tonight and tomorrow so we have bought hake from the market and various types of sausage and plan to cook at home the next two nights.Meer informatie
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- 1 feb. 2019 12:26
- 🌬 14 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.683113, -6.13761736°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 8
A week!
1 februari 2019, Spanje ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
A week - we have been here a week already! We really haven't done much other than reacquaint ourselves with the centre of the city. Today I walked over to the west edge of the city where there are big sherry bodegas like Garvey, Fundador, Gonzales Byass and Tio Pepe. In amongst these is a old hermitage, built in 1675 but on a site dating back to the 8th century. It's a neat building, but sadly now surrounded by blocks of modern apartments.Meer informatie
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- 2 feb. 2019
- 🌬 11 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.683056, -6.13761636°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 9
Yesterday
2 februari 2019, Spanje ⋅ 🌬 11 °C
Weather has been very dull and overcast for three days, it even poured with rain over night Friday. Yesterday though was sunny again but with a sharp cold wind. I walked around the south of the city through areas I really didn't know much. It is mostly old and residential, and pretty thread-bare, no new apartment blocks here. It is one of the flamenco areas though and I found lots of flamenco penas (music schools) and some statues of some of the great flamenco stars of the past. There were also great views looking down over the valley below and across to the hills where the sherry vineyards are. On the way back I ran across a demonstration in the main square about Venezuela.Meer informatie
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- 3 feb. 2019
- ☀️ 9 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.683128, -6.13761736°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 10
Flamenco and football
3 februari 2019, Spanje ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Today has seen clear blue skies and sunshine again, although there is still a cold wind. Last night we went to our favourite flamenco bar for the late night performance and it was as good as usual, the dancer was even someone we have seen before, this time last year. This afternoon I went to a home match of my football team. They play nice football but it ended as a 0-0 draw. Try again next Sunday! It was lovely watching in the sun, but after the sun went down behind the roof of the stand it was really cold!Meer informatie
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- 4 feb. 2019 17:23
- ☀️ 14 °C
- Hoogte: 56 m
- Spanje Andalucía Jerez de la Frontera Parroquia De San Dionisio 36.683072, -6.13759336°40’59” N 6°8’15” W
Dag 11
Going on a trip
4 februari 2019, Spanje ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Tomorrow we are going to go to Córdoba for a couple of days. We have been there before a few years ago and it's easy to get there from here. We can get a train to Seville then change to another train to Córdoba and arrive in time for lunch. The old mosque in Córdoba is one of my most favourite buildings in the world and it will great to see it again. Back on Thursday afternoon.Meer informatie
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- 5 feb. 2019 17:10
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Hoogte: 121 m
- Spanje Andalucía Córdoba Plaza San Agustín 37.8916, -4.772737°53’30” N 4°46’22” W
Dag 12
Journey to Cordoba
5 februari 2019, Spanje ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Bit of an early start for us - up and out by 9.30 to walk to the station. The first train to Seville was an ordinary Media Distancia train but still very comfortable. The second was the high speed train from Seville to Madrid travelling at over 250km per hour - very smooth and showing movies on TV screens! Our hotel is right beside the Mezquita and after changing rooms we have a view of its outer walls. It is a beautiful and serene building despite being a major tourist attraction. The first part of the mosque was built by the Moors in the 8C AD on top of a Visigoth cathedral which was built on top of a Roman temple. In 2017 they uncovered some Roman mosaics under the floor and you can now see them under a glass panel in the floor. Added to in subsequent centuries it was then ruined in the 16C after the reconquest when they plonked a cathedral in the middle of it. The mihrab dating from the 10C has wonderful mosaics done by craftsmen loaned by the Byzantine emperor.Meer informatie
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- 5 feb. 2019 17:24
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Hoogte: 121 m
- Spanje Andalucía Córdoba Plaza San Agustín 37.8916, -4.772737°53’30” N 4°46’22” W
Dag 12
First day in Cordoba
5 februari 2019, Spanje ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Our holiday in Cordoba started well with a delicious tapas lunch a few doors down and this is the town where all the restaurants give you a free glass of Pedro Jimenez after the meal, which it would be rude to refuse. After our visit to the Mezquita we walked down to the river to see the Roman bridge. It is a lovely warm sunny day here without the cool breeze we have had for a few days in Jerez.Meer informatie
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