Jerez; Sunday, 13 March, 2011

The carnival celebrations were due to kick off at 3pm today, so I thought I would stand a much better chance of seeing some of them.

However, the day didn’t have the best of starts as I discovered when I got up that the water was off in parts of the hotel and I was unable to have a shower.

After a leisurely breakfast I headed to the station and the train in Cadiz, and then had a wander around the town taking in the build up to the big parades.

I managed to catch quite a bit of the carnival before the first hefty shower passed through just after 3pm.

I watched a bit more, but the next cloud burst was pretty obviously going to be a very long, and very wet one, and people were already starting to drift away, so I headed back to the station and caught the train back to Jerez.

It was still chucking it down by the time I got back to Jerez so I wandered back to the hotel to grab a bite to eat, to dry off, and to pack.