An early end to the Spanish lesson as we caught the lunchtime bus from Conil to Cadiz. At 5 Euros each, that was great value for money.

We also had a great deal on our hotel, the Hotel Las Cortes de Cadiz. A four star hotel which we managed to secure for about 60 Euros a night. It was a lovely hotel right in the heart of the Old Town. Very clean and well maintained.

We arrived mid to late afternoon and embarked on a long walk around the old-town and the edge of the coast. The weather was a bit blustery with a cool northerly wind testing the few layers of clothes we’d managed to bring along.

Today is Valentines day (Hoy es la dia de los enamorades) and we felt lucky to be able to book a nice restaurant – Restaurante Balandro. We weren’t in the posh part with the white linen tables but we had a high top in the bar area. Apparently the food is the same but twice the price when served on white linen!

We ordered Tapas, the highlight being a selection of fried Fish.

Our waitress wasn’t able to translate what we were eating into English – but, I think the five different fish might have been:

Calamari – definitely

Acedias – probably the whole fish on the left. This appears to have no obvious translation in English but appears to be some kind of small flatfish in the same family as Sole – perhaps a “Wedge Sole”.

Whitebait – definitely

Dogfish or Monkfish – we think that is the fish between the Whitebait and the Calamari

Hake – Maybe. This was the meaty white flaky fish second from the left

The pretty streets of Cadiz after dark.