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Article: To Cadiz, where life is just one long lunch; A tapas bar hop on the Costa de la Luz will have you trying everything from warm octopus to raisin ice cream.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Byline: TOMMY NICHOLS
I'LL declare my hand: I love Cadiz. It is beautiful - grand sandstone buildings, built on colonial wealth - and warm. It is historic - the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe - and it has great beaches.
But more than anything else, I think I love Cadiz because this tiny, crowded blob of land - on the end of a peninsula that sticks out defiantly into the Atlantic - is full of bars (I'm English, remember?).
In fact, Cadiz lays claim to having invented the tapa, which means cover.
Supposedly, King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) stopped at the Ventorrillo del Chato, a restaurant that still exists. It was a ...