No need to rush this morning, most of the town will be closed and we plan to have a late afternoon main meal. A tooting horn announces the arrival of the breadvan from which Ali buys a loaf for breakfast. Good sunshine means the new solar panel is doing its stuff and we can charge both wheelchair batteries. Ali and Grete wander along the Bajo de Gaia road along the seafront to find the restaurant mentioned in Lonely Planet. At 15:00 we set off for the 500m wa...

We have to be up and ready earlier today as we are visiting a sherry bodega. It takes 45 minutes to walk through the town to Bodegas Barbadillo. €6 gets us a guided tour, in English, plus tasting afterwards. We four are the only ones on the English tour. Our guide, Kuka explains how this region's wines are unique, as they use the palamino grape which is grown in the soft, spongy soil. She explains the two pressings, the dry, young wine followed by the sw...

After an undisturbed night and a dark morning no-one is in any rush to move this morning so it is after 11:00 when we finally hit the road for Sanlucar de Barrameda. We skirt Seville then head southwest towards Cadiz. The landscape becomes very flat and lush with bright green grass and other early crops. Little whitewashed towns sit on small rises and white horses graze in fenced paddocks. As we near the coast the temperature rises to 16C and the sky is...

Many vans have left already this morning as we make our own preparations to go. There is a car wash on site so we take the opportunity to wash the vans so it is approaching midday when we check out and drive eight miles to Santaponce where, we have read, there are remains of a large Roman town. We see a likely area but there ate no signs although there is a good car park. Ali + Grete go to explore then phone to say they have found the tourist info a mile a...

A sunny morning as we walk into town where we meet N+G by the Golden Tower, once a store for nautical treasure and plunders but now a maritime museum. We pass the cathedral and horse carriage ranks and enter the Alcazar, or more correctly the Real Alcazar [Real meaning Royal]. This Muslim Royal palace was founded in the 11th Century and extended over the next few. Rooms are richly decorated with coloured tiles and patterned ceilings. Walls and doorways...