Take a ferry to avoid parking hassles!
After visiting the large cities of Granada and Sevilla, I thought I deserved a break from driving in congested areas - especially Cadiz, located as it is on a very narrow peninsula! As a result, we booked our accommodations in El Puerto de Santa Maria, a very nice little city across the Bay of Cadiz from our real destination.With a population of about one million in the greater Cadiz area, and with 100,000 of those living in El Puerto, the European Metropolitan Transport Authorities decided that it was time for a ferry service to help relieve road traffic. This service went into operation in the summer of 2006 using two catamaran ferries with a traffic target of 480,000 trips per year. It proved successful and a third ferry was added to include passage to Rota (the large joint Spanish/American naval base just up the Bahia from El Puerto). The local company running the ferries is called...

































