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 sweeter one sold in blue bottles; 16 million of them per year bottled at a rate of 12500/hour. We are then taken into the 'cathedral', a huge columned and arched warehouse which maintains the cool, humid conditions required for the5000 barrels stored in three layers. Wine is syphoned from one layer to the next, but each barrel keeps the 'mother' wine and yeast layer which increases the alcohol content of the middle third which is then bottled. The barrels are American oak dating back nearly 300 years. Occasionally they are cleaned, sometimes repaired, but no new wood or barrels are ever used.

Back at the tasting bar we are given the young dry and young sweet, then the Solear, a crisp light sherry, slightly salted by the sea air, and finally the rich Eva Cream. The most exclusive variety, the 8 year old is not for us; the 12000 bottles released each year are sold out on the first day. Naturally we are invited into the shop, and naturally we buy some to take home and N+G give us glasses bearing the Solear logo.

Lunch time so we return to Plaza del Cabildo which is absolutely buzzing with people, but we find a table and enjoy a light lunch in the sunshine before heading back for a relaxing afternoon.

As soon as the tide is in ships begin moving in the estuary.

Early evening there is another lovely sunset, but with the wind and disappearing sun it gets cold so we abandon plans to go to a restaurant and settle in for the evening.