Puerto Gelves: on anchor 15-18 October 2012
Itinerary Seville, Spain. Doing flamenco and munching tapas in famous
tascas (whilst drinking fresh orange juice of course!). To get close to
Seville, we cruise up the Guadalquivir River and anchor near Gelves.
Just a little further Bruce, keep going... |
Our bus, #140 to Seville, looped. We didn’t know we’d arrived in the city centre until we were well on our way back to Puerto Gelves. Doh! Value for ticket bus ride though! Still, we caught a taxi back into town and our driver deposited us outside a breath-taking Seville Cathedral. Queues into the Cathedral and Palace were huge, so we stopped at Starbucks (for the worst coffee we’d had in Gibraltar, Spain or Morocco) before finding a big red bus.
We’ve taken
quite a liking to big red buses. They offer
comprehensive tours and we noted highlights to visit later. Theme park Isla Magica was as closed as were our
swimming pools in Ceuta (thankfully)
and Silicon Valley Spanish style was a little technical for us. So, hop on, hop off the bus to do lunch! Ham & cheese, bull’s tail and Spanish omelette
tapas were served on a tourist area sidewalk by a disinterested waiter. He’d cooked his goose though - we left no tip!
Words just cannot describe Seville's Cathedral |
We had to get
back to Gelves to see the engine mechanic.
His lunch hour was from 2 till 4, as all good mechanics must. We hoped Bruce’s engine was not too
sick. However we still had time to see
the Cathedral, a Gothic masterpiece, whose architects must have thrown away all
the rule books except reach for the stars…
Those stained glass windows are magnificent, religious statuary gilded
and heavily ornate, Columbus’s Tomb a testimony to his achievements and from
the 90m high Giralda (1184; once a mosque minaret), a perfect vista over this
wonderful city.
The only way to keep the kids busy |
Columbus's Tomb (he's buried elswhere - Dominican Republic perhaps?) |
From:
Cadiz, Spain Lat/Long: 36:32.544N 06:17.042W
Date/Time: 14/10/12: 1045
To:
Puerto Gelves, Spain Lat/Long: 37:20.505N 06:01.364W
Date/Time: 14/10/12: 2145
Time Taken: 79.5nm (11hrs) Distance (this year): 414.5nm (66hrs)
Distance Total (since 2008): 10651.5nm Weather: Sunny day; enough wind to turn off engine & sail.
Time Taken: 79.5nm (11hrs) Distance (this year): 414.5nm (66hrs)
Distance Total (since 2008): 10651.5nm Weather: Sunny day; enough wind to turn off engine & sail.
Fastest
Speed: Short run from Cadiz to mouth of Rio
Guadalquivir; managed an incoming tide with 2 kts extra for very fast ride upriver
to Gelves (outside Seville)
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