{"id":6323,"date":"2026-04-23T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:49:33","slug":"leaving-tavira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/leaving-tavira\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Tavira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For us, Tavira was a town for leisurely walks and sitting on park benches. We didn\u2019t go inside any one of the twenty-two churches (!!) in town nor the museum. We left town on Wednesday morning on our way to our next stop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6324\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6324 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5174-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main Street Tavira, Portugal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ll remember our quirky room in this former chapel (ours was the door on the left);<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6325\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6325 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5159-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tavira Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The simple and delicious tapas meals;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6326\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6326\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-627x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-627x1024.jpeg 627w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-184x300.jpeg 184w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-92x150.jpeg 92w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-768x1255.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-940x1536.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-1253x2048.jpeg 1253w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5154-scaled.jpeg 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu of the Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the sun setting over the River Gilao.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6327\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6327 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-1024x698.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-1024x698.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-300x204.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-150x102.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-768x523.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-1536x1047.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullSizeRender-8-2048x1396.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset in Tavira, Portugal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wednesday we grabbed some ham, cheese and butter sandwiches as we left town on our way to Cadiz. The roads were good and the trip uneventful until we arrived in Cadiz. It\u2019s not the sleepy town we remembered from a visit during a fall trip in the middle of the pandemic in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6328\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6328 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6935-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cadiz, Spain in 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s a bustling cruise port with mucho traffic. We managed to return the rental car and find our apartment near the city center. The apartment is small, quiet, and well-equipped and we will be comfortable here for the next few days. We are happy to be be back in Cadiz!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For us, Tavira was a town for leisurely walks and sitting on park benches. We didn\u2019t go inside any one of the twenty-two churches (!!) in town nor the museum. We left town on Wednesday morning on our way to our next stop. We\u2019ll remember our quirky room in this former chapel (ours was the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/leaving-tavira\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaving Tavira&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-travels-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6332,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}