Jerez; Thursday, 10 March, 2011

A quick breakfast down I caught the shuttle bus out to the airport to check in for my flight down to Jerez. In the end I could probably have left it another hour or so to pick up the bus as I was wandering around the airport for nearly 90 minutes before the flight was finally called.

In the end the flight was delayed by quite a bit and it was nearly 45 minutes late by the time it landed in Jerez, but that was OK, as I managed to make it through the airport with a couple of minutes to spare before the bus into town.

Having gotten into town I decided I couldn’t be bothered to try and find the bus stop so I jumped in a cab to the Hotel. I hadn’t realised quite how far away the hotel was and it took the cab a good 15 minutes to get to the hotel.

After checking in and dropping off my stuff I wandered back into the old town, discovering on the way that it took nearly 30 minutes to get to the edge of it, in a pretty boring and very uphill walk.

I had a long wander around town, stopping off part way round for a very late lunch in a nice café near the main square.

I got back to the Plaza del Arenal just before the land train set off for a tour of the city, so I decided to hop on board and take the tour.

After that completed it was then a short walk down to the main Sherry Bodegas to catch the last tour of the day round the site including tastings and tapas.

Full of sherry and tapas I had a bit of a further wander around the Cathedral and Alcazar area before finding the bus stop back to the hotel, conveniently just as the bus was about to depart.

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