On Monday we had no real plan when we got up, we were up late and had a relaxing morning before finding out it was a public holiday in Cadiz for the carnival. We took ourselves to the bus station and took a gamble on which bus to get on, luckily this paid off and within 30 minutes we were in Cadiz town centre. We had no map and no idea at all of where we were heading so we immersed ourselves in the carnival crowds and atmosphere and went wherever the flow took us. There were thousands of happy people all enjoying the carnival, watching the little singing groups and watching the tractors pulling big floats full of even more groups. These moved along ridiculously slowly and occasionally stopped for the group to have a bit of a sing. We wandered about for 2 hours before thinking that maybe we should try to find our way to the bus station as this may take some time!! Following Megan's advice, we took a series of alleyways and side streets and found ourselves at the sea just as the sun was going down which was a nice end to another unplanned day.
The next day once again started with no major plan but we ended up going to the once weekly market just across the river from where we were staying, it was absolutely huge and kept us busy for quite a while before we decided we would brave the public transport once again. We managed to not get lost, as soon as we saw the sea we hopped off the bus and went and relaxed on one of the most beautiful beaches. There were no clouds at all and it was easily warm enough for just shorts and t-shirts, not in the water however, as that was absolutely freezing! Needless to say, we didn't go in! In the absence of watersports we amused ourselves by drawing in the sand and jumping off things like the mature adults that we really are!
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