A palace in a plaza is our home for the next three nights. Like in Cadiz, we have a large roof deck which gives a different aspect to the place and we see different things. We don’t often move in 5 star circles but Corrie is a booking.com genius so how could you refuse a 50% discount.
Being in the centre of the old cities is what we love best when travelling, soaking up the smells, eating in the local cafes, and immersing ourselves in those ancient streets. I call our lodgings home because our location often makes it feel as though we are not outsiders, that we are living there as are other foreigners of course, immediately feeling part of the city. The day then mostly consists of walking, because that is what we do, and exploring the intimacy of these gorgeous places.
So today it was a walk across town to the Roman museum – there are more Roman monuments and artefacts than anywhere else in Spain, which helps make it a UNESCO site. We will walk over the longest existing Roman bridge in the world tomorrow as we track a small part of the Camino Via de la Plata which runs from Cadiz to Santiago de Compostela.
Today also included a circular walk out of town following the beautifully preserved and magnificent Roman aqueducts. Corrie has a fascination for them and I think they are magnificent as well as serving a great purpose – they bring life to a city and its peoples. These ones brought life to the aqueducts themselves by providing homes for lots of nesting storks.
