Weekend in Jerez de la Frontera - Part 1

We went with Ryan and Angela to Jerez via train, an hour's journey or so. 

We stayed in a palace!! I am dividing this post into three parts per day that we were there because Ryan was our photographer and he has shared some wonderful pictures that won't fit on one post.

We cabbed, Bruce rolled to the accommodations, a palace! Imagine that! 

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4217631

Atrium, one of two! Other one is inside.

Crazy large in size, we get the whole bottom floor. They have a very heavy ramp to get Bruce’s chair inside over the 60 cm sill. 

Back story behind these accommodations, it has been in the family for generations. One room’s wall was part of the city’s fortress wall. The current family lives on the second floor (called first here) they rent out the main floor. It is old, ornate the bathrooms have been updated with crazy modern showers that honestly are not particularly wonderful to use. 

The antiques are mostly reproductions but have been done well. Beds are comfortable and the kitchen is a nook in a corner, very small but with fridge, probably not great to cook an entire meal at, but adequate for us and likely most of their clients. It’s walking distance to the downtown core but on a quiet street. Internet coverage is an act of exercising extreme patience, she wrote in the instructions, it is slow all through the downtown core.

Ryan and Louis

We settle our animals and go next door for a tapa or two or three for lunch at La Taberna de los 6. https://www.facebook.com/latabernadelos6/

Great homemade food and very personable fellow!

The friendly proprietor says my kitchen is open, my wife cooks all the food fresh, that sold me! It was very good food too! Especially the meat balls with cheese and a lovely tomato sauce. We all wondered how each bar survives in this plaza of four bodegas. I guess they all have their specialties and regular customers. This fellow had another bodega outside of town and his customers urged him to move into the centre, he’d only been there six months. If the food and service is anything to go by he’ll survive. 

We do a shop at a large department store for things like Coffee! and other bits. Then we move on for a pre-dinner drink because here the kitchens don’t open until 8 pm. 

We go to a modern restaurant Angela and Ryan had been to before called Albores http://www.restaurantealbores.com/  and food was good there too, just more modern and the wine was excellent.

So that was Day 1 in Jerez de la Frontera! Stay tuned for two more Parts...

Cheers, Bx2 and Lexi Cat