San Fernando, Cádiz: Descubre la Ciudad, sus Playas y su Gastronomía

San Fernando

I live in Cartagena but I’m from San Fernando. I’m going to talk about San Fernando. It’s a small city of Cádiz in the South of Spain, and for me it’s the best place to live. I live near the beach, and that is cool. It has long beaches and it is a good place to do paddle surf. I go to the beach with my friends to do it every time that I can. Its name is Camposoto Beach.

Really, San Fernando doesn’t have many things to do or many places to go, but it is a calm city, and very beautiful. You can visit “El Bartolo”, Camarón’s Statue, or its town hall, which is the second biggest in Spain.

If you like soccer, my city has a team in third division, and the best fans in the world. When I can, I go to Bahía Sur to see it. Rarely do they win, but it isn’t important.

Gastronomy

The gastronomy in my city is normal. What I like the most is fried little fish and croquettes. If you have any possibility of coming on holiday to Cádiz, you can also visit many beautiful towns and cities that are around, such as Chiclana, Los Caños and Jerez.

Maneuver

I’m going to talk about the last maneuver that I have done. I went to “Los Alcázares” with my co-workers to train in many military activities.

We arrived at “Los Alcázares” on Monday. We did TIC (Individual Combat Techniques) in the morning. Then, we had time to eat and in the afternoon we made movements in formation. At night, when we were sleeping, someone shouted !DISPERSION! because the enemy was coming towards us and we had to collect all the equipment and get out of there.

Tuesday morning, we did the “Conguito”. The Conguito is an underground labyrinth, but during the day it looked good because there was light. At night we had to do it again, but it was much more difficult because there was no light anymore, and we couldn’t see anything. In the afternoon we went rowing in a boat, and we did a race. All the exercises we did during the maneuver were wet, because our bosses wanted us to be cold. Next to the maneuvering field is the Mar Menor, and that’s where we would get wet, with all the equipment on.

On Wednesday we were cleaning weapons and went back to the base to continue our routine. Our bosses were very happy with us, because they saw that we had a good attitude, and they liked that. This maneuver united us very much with all our co-workers, because we suffered together.