Weekend in Rota and Cadiz

This trip was originally planned to be super super busy, I had hoped to go to Sevilla and see a few other things but in the end I ended up just going to Cadiz and Rota and just hanging out on the beach and things. It was nice to just relax a little nearing the end of my trip, but since I didn't get to see Sevilla and Grenada yet it just means I will have to come back!!

Once in Rota we spent a few hours at the beach then headed to Cadiz by ferry. I little 30 min ride over to Cadiz and then we wondered to find our hostal. Once getting organized at the hostal we went to roam our surroudings. A few of the girls had been to Cadiz already so they knew a few spots but we pretty much just wondered until we could find food. Lunch was umm ok but the ice cream made my day. I really can't turn down a good ice cream! The big group of us (8girls) ended up splitting up a little to explore things so Kristin, Jodie and I decided to be tourists and check out some of the sights. In the end our sight seeing turned into a search for churros (fried dough that you dip into chocolate mmm), but we were not successful at this. Churros are more of a breakfast thing it seems. One back at the hostal we made some pasta and enjoyed some cheap wine and sangria(from a box hahaha). The evening was filled with tyring to find the popular spot in town, botellon (big bottle) and the discoteca. Botellon is where all the young people (15-24) meet up and bring their own drinks and just hang out until about 3am when the discotecas open. This was very interesting, its like a party without the host. There were at least a few hundred people here so it was very eventful.

The next morning we enjoyed some yummy churros con chocolate (mmm finally I got to try to joys of churros) and then just lazied around Cadiz until our ferry back to Rota. That evening just went to the beach, watched a little spanish television and ordered chinese. My last day in Rota was purely relaxing, woke up late, headed to the beach then just in teh evening headed back to the dreaded bus station to go to Puerto Santa Maria and take the 7 hour night bus back to Madrid. In the end I managed to get some sleep this time but it wasn't that great.