Hitchhiking in Spain

I had this idea for a long time, namely to hitch-hike to the sea. Being already a little bit capoerista when I had known that there would be capoeira workshops with Brazilian mestres in Cadiz on the weekend, I and my Peruvian companion decided to try hitch-hiking from Seville to Cadiz. Let’s call it adventure from nothing.

Hastily had packed my bag, drawn a poster with inscription CADIZ, hoping on friendliness of Spanish drivers, early n the morning we had been begun to wait for good luck on a gas station. Hotness of course was the main enemy for us- artificial Bedouins! And as more sun went up as more our smiles to drivers became fake. However, the mantra consisting of the one word “Cadiz” had encouraged us. But when we were about to give up the old-school van with Spanish family picked us up! Being happy like kids that hitch-hiking turned to be possible they drove us to the direction of Rota.

Nevertheless, the family advised us to take off highway before road goes Rota, so we appeared on the highway under the scorching sun. Standing, sometimes walking with poster in our hands, widely smiling didn’t make cars stop. It took around 2 hours of walking on highway; my arms were burned but fields of beautiful sunflowers and clean sky made our pastime unforgettable. Second time for this day was the moment of losing hopes, when suddenly old farmer had seen us on the middle of the road and waved. Super worn out car full of vegetables looked magic, or at least I was feeling myself like in movie. However, the lovely farmer offered us option to take a ferry to Cadiz which was only 30 minutes from Rota. After 6 hours in total on the road and actually really wanted to get Cadiz capoeira event we were happy to travel with ferry!

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