Cadiz

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Mark & Helen Syrett
Mon 24 Jun 2013 18:50
We had a good night's sleep only interrupted by the howling wind. The levanter is now well set in with very strong easterly winds forecast to blow for a week!! The levante is preceded by a heavy swell, cold damp air, poor visibility and low cloud which forms around the high hills---all of which we had!!
There may be an opportunity to creep downwind along the coast towards Lagos later this week to take advantage of favourable wind up the Portugese coast but if not we will have to sit it out---at least we are away from the Gibraltar Straits where the wind is forecast at over 40 knots and Cadiz is lovely city. We visited the Cathedral and also went to the Torre Tavira which was one of many watch towers, but as the tallest it was the official watch tower, in the city where the merchants used to look out for their ships coming over the horizon from America and then hoist the appropriate signal flags. This is now a ''camera obscura'' which projects a live image onto a concave horizontal screen (inverted satellite dish) in a darkened room which is rotated manually to give one a 360 degree live view of the city. 
We may get to know this City quite well!