On a well known website (www.andalucia.com) it says the famous JEREZ Horse Fair is held during the first week on May. Good job I checked becaus, for next year, according to Jerez Dpto. de Turismo :

NOS COMPLACE INFORMARLE QUE LA FERIA DEL CABALLO 2003, TENDR� LUGAR DEL11 AL 18 MAYO 2003

I make that more like the second week ?


Nige

Hey Nige, thanks for the heads up!

Out of all fairness to the folks at that Andalucia.com website, it is very hard to keep up with those events. Often times the event organizers change the dates and one year they may be a week or even 2 before or after the one from the previous year.

Happens to me with my MADRID CALENDAR more thna I would like to admit

So, it is always best to go directly to the official source, in this case the Jerez Dpto. de Turismo.

Also, not that Andalucia.com is not good but the official Andalucia web site is at www.andalucia.org and the www.andalucia.com site is a fan site (like mine). Maybe you would get more up to date info there.

Also very hard to keep a "fan site" going strong and have a "normal job" as well, these sites get sponsors but do not pay all the bills.

On to the horsey topic. Jerez will need these8 months to regain its strength since the Worl Equestrian Games just ended the third week in Sept. The website is at www.jerez2002weg.org and it was quite an event.

I had the pleasure of supplying the U.S. and Canadian equestrian teams with about 75 of my cell phones for 3 weeks in September during the games but when all was said and done, I had to watch the games from Madrid on TV

You see, I had to deliver a week before the games began and pick the phones up a week after they ended so it was all work no play for jer :lo: The teams were nice enough to offer me tickets to the shows and such but I had to be back in Madrid and could not hang down there for a month

Jerez is truly a great city, I have been there about 5 times and never get tired of it Lucky enough to have a girlfriend (ena) with a brother who lives 30km from Jerez in "Medina Sidonia". I am heading down again next Friday for the weekend to pick up my new car (saved 1,000 Euros buying it down there at a dealership where ena's brother knows a guy).

You are down in Puerto de Santa Mar�a, did you get to see any of the equestrian competitions?

Saludos,
jer...

Yes - it must be incredibly difficult to keep track of those dates. I missed the September 2002 Games because our place in El Puerto was rented out to friends who had an American relation competing. But returning to El Puerto very soon. Maybe I will change my 'addy' to El Puerto AND Sussex England ! Bit of a rolling stone just now.

Went through Medina Sidonia last Easter time. Want to spend another day in that lovely town and learn up some more of the history of the Duke and the famous Dona Ana. The new widened road A381 (Jerez to Los Barrios) that whisks you past Medina is such an improvement.

Thanks for the great site and for making anyone who hankers after Madrid and Spain so much fun.

Maybe our paths will cross in Romerijos !

Nige