Having just spent two days in Cadiz I vote it the most dog friendly Spanish city I have visited.


There is DOG SHIT everywhere.

It's the only Spanish city I've visited so far that I didn't like. Couldn't wait to get out of the place.

Cádiz is one of my favourite places, wouldn't like to live there but love it for a visit great for fish lovers, lots of restaurants with no menu, just what has come in on the boats. local crab cakes...yummy

How can you say that Jackie. It is the most beautiful city surrounded by sea and wonderful beaches. The new city isn´t anything to write home about but the old part is one of the lovliest Spanish cities there is. Far superior to Marbella and a hell of a lot cheaper. Can´t comment about the dog shit unfortunately the Spanish haven´t heard about picking up.

Sorry Jackie, I meant Lynn!

How can I say what I said it was one of my favourite places

Oh. I wondered what I had said

I might have liked it better had we booked a shorter stay - we were there for 3 nights and as we found we could walk from one end of the old city to the other, both lengthways and across, within about 2 hours it was far too long. Also we were there in November and were unlucky with the weather, it was cold, wet and windy - unlike Sevilla where we've been several times at that time of year and it has always been lovely. Beaches don't interest me anyway. As for being beautiful, I don't think it compares favourably with places like Toledo or Segovia, or Sevilla for that matter. I thought the architecture in Jerez was much more interesting too. For a seaside place, San Sebastian knocks Cadiz into a cocked hat.

We really struggled to find decent places to eat which catered for my vegetarian OH (even more than usual for Spain) - had he eaten fish it might have been much easier.

I was shocked and saddened by the number of homeless people living on the streets - bedding down in shop doorways and parks, and many of them were people who looked to be in their 60s and 70s, not younger people with drug, alcohol or mental health issues. I know every city has rough sleepers, but I saw far more evidence of it in Cadiz than anywhere else I've been in Spain.

yes there are downsides as there are with any City. We stayed in the Parador once and from our balcony we were watching drug dealing carried out openly in the park next door!

I was last here ( still here not leaving until tomorrow ) in 92 and stayed only one night in the Parador, this time in a different hotel, anyway today we went back to see what the newly built Parador was like.

Well we sat on the terrace having a coffee surrounded by rusty iron and wriggly tin, I can only compare it with sitting in a dilapidated container port, not impressed and will not be booking it in the future.

Didn't see anything special there myself apart from endless Semana Santa processions banging away outside the bedroom window, the girl friend got herself mugged and finally we went on a tourist bus thinking there must surely be something of interest here..........

........ only to have to listen to the Spanish tourist guide ranting on about how the Brits had raided the town and stole the church bells as well all their gold.

That didn't last too long either once I asked her how they managed to aquire the stuff in the first place.

We stayed at the Hotel Argantonio when we were there, it was actually the best thing about our stay (although nobody goes on holiday to sit in the hotel, do they?). Only small, but very convenient location and charming.


http://www.hotelargantonio.es/

Well those of us that live here love Cadiz and as for not finding anywhere to eat well you certainly weren't going to the right places, even for vegetarians there are excellent restaurants ie Soprani's, Balandro, El Faro, el Veedor, a Siete and Aljibe to name just a few. Please dont knock our lovely city any city in the cold and wet is not a pleasant place to be.

Keeps you on your toes Fred.