Among the marshes and History
I have, sometime in the previous 1000 posts, mused on the nature of preconceptions being the spam of the mind. Thing is the universe is large and the brain capacity is small and while one is wondering if Sarah Biddulph did kidnap a mad woman in 1776 you don’t have space to know about every city in the world - and Cadiz, pronounced Cardiff - is one of them. My knowledge of Cadiz is that Elizabethans got tetchy with the place and that it held out against Napoleon and his ilk. In a wonderfully constructed board game called War & Peace the French tended to sweep all before them, leaving Cadiz and the like holding out. The French slowly have to strip garrisons to defend supply lines until it gets critical and they have to abandon land to make field armies. What I didn’t realise was that Cadiz really is stuck out on a limb and that it has a bit of reputation for being relaxed and liberal. I have included a satellite picture today so you get the idea that we are walking alongside a ...