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Murcia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Murcia, Spain and Canary Islands
Bananas at La Manga.
This is a top pick! ... at the time the event took place. I spent a couple of days with work colleagues at the La Manga resort in the Murcia province of Spain. If you haven't heard of the place, it is kind of famous with British football stars on training camps and ...
Molina de Segura
... not a tourist destination by any means!! Fred, Rakim and I spent the next few days watching movies, resting and hanging out. We went out on Friday night to Murcia to a small bar/club, only to find that we were a spectacle for the Spaniards. Imagine me a ...
The best place in the world is with friends
... by 2 hours. Then our train was having problems and we had to transfer to another train. All in all we arrived in Murcia at 12:45am, 4 hours late, but very excited to see Javier, Carmen and still waiting to see the girls who got up and ...
Pirates beware.
... about it though was that it was built to blow up pirates, which is pretty awesome. Turns out pirates were a major issue in Spain, all up the western coast we had noticed all these fortified farm houses. They were made to hold off sneaky pirates when they ...
Something fishy, and flamingoes
... la R alone, we figured it should be easy enough- no, a cakewalk- to find a cheap place to stay. But, while Murcia City is not very touristy and so things are constant year round, the Mar Menor lives and dies on tourism and so, in the off season as we ...
Express trip to Murcia
... militares de la época. (ENGLISH VERSION) On a quick trip, I decided to take the train and went to Murcia, the seventh biggest city by number of inhabitants in the country, located 600 kilometers (375 ...
Lagune Mar Menor mit dem Rad umrundet
Heute – wieder von Sonne, startenden Flugzeugen (Flugbeginn war heute doch vor 8.00) und Kätzchen geweckt – haben wir eine richtig lange Radtour gemacht. Ca. 50km, sagen die Campingplatznachbarn (wenn man bei der geringen Anzahl Mobile und ...
Festival de Tunas Barrio Del Carmen
Festival de Tunas Barrio Del Carmen...um verdadeiro show aquela noite em Lo ...
DAY 47 - FEBRUARY 19, 2007
... of Cadiz. Starting last weekend, and running all week, is Carnival in Cadiz. It is a time when the poor and unprivileged in Spain have traditionally felt free to express their political sentiments to the government (of course, this was ...
Booyass!
We camped the night in Murcia on our long inland sojourn to the town of Bullas. The landscape had become even drier and the stretches of road seeming endless in the heat. When we finally came upon Bullas we really didn't expect much, the main reason we ...
Dia 3 da viagem (Murcia a Perpignon)
Este dia tivemos pouco tempo para fotos, pois devido ao dia anterior com os atrasos, tivemos de recuperar e foi quase tudo AE, a ultima parte que tinha qualquer coisa de interessante foi feita no fim dia e a luz ja não ajudava. ...
Los Alcazares, Santiago de la Ribera, L'Azohia
Towns near the inland sea of Mar Menor: Los Alcazares, Santiago de la Ribera..We had a magnificent lunch at Chris's place, who is an Irishman at L'Azohia. Fish we ate was ...
Where to go??
We flew down to Murcia airport, and we knew that like many Ryanair flights, it landed in the middle of nowhere. But, we also knew that there was a little town nearby and so the plan was to go there, look around, and try to find a place to stay for the ...
Caravaca of the True Cross
... during siesta. Apparently a miracle brought a piece of Christ's actual cross to this location, that the angels chose this rather lost, off the beaten track location tells me that the miracle was that those two winged messengers even managed to find ...
Erdgasraffinerie und Militärflughafen
... Blance komplett links liegen (kein Valencia und Alicante....) und peilen die laut Reiseführer total unterschätzte Region Murcia an, wo wir bei Cartagena nach einem hübschen Campingplatz mit Stromanschluß, Duschen und möglichst in Strandlage Ausschau ...
Doch ein tolles Fleckchen hier!
Los Alcázares Camping Mar Menor 10:30 Frühstück in der Sonne Der Platz hier gewinnt deutlich an Charme auf den 2. Blick. Der Tag empfängt uns um 8:30 mit Sonne und über 20 Grad – wir sind im Sommer angekommen! Erstmals werden die ...
The long weekend
... to Villa Martin) in the camper van......After driving around for a while trying to find somewhere to park (a bit of a problem in Spain it seems if you have a high vehicle as they very cleverly put their parking underground) we found a parking space on a ...
Post Christmas (Cabin Fever)
... ;quite strange, not many people about at all. Although it was not officially a public holiday in Spain as it in the U.K. most of the shops and businesses were closed the only people working seemed to be preparing for the New Year celebrations.We ...
Day Tripper
... quite tough going. The route takes us through Cartagena, quite a big city with very busy traffic, and then over the mountains...I have to say, Spain is very mountainous. The route through the mountains has some lovely views but some of the roads are ...
Cartagena
... ruins. It is a natural harbor and is a naval site of some importance. They are building a museum of submarine archeology, and apparently "Madrid" is trying to turn Cartagena into a popular tourist (especially cruising) destination. They have a ways to ...
Happy Christmas
We've stopped at a campsite in Spain for Christmas, it's warm and sunny and we're surrounded by Germans. These boys are hard core, washing machines, satellite dishes and kitchen sinks - it does make you ...
Tomatoes, Fish Mongers, and a Country House
... , we only received a friendly smile when I asked the hotel receptionist where the best South American restuarant in Murcia was, and she sent us to "the best" typically Murcian restaurant. Under normal circumstances, we would have been grateful, but not ...
If I relax any more, I'll be in a coma...
... , the 27th of May, Roy and myself flew to Almeria in Spain. It's a city on the South East Coast of Spain. We hired a car so drove up to Murcia. Roy had forgotten to print out the address for the place we were staying at, so we were seriously trying to ...
Another Month, another Parisite
... at Nueva Alizana. I made a giant feast for the two other americans that where there, there was also a girl from Holland and a German. I invited my Guatemalan friends. Unfortunaly, I had amebeas and could not enjoy any of the food because eating made me ...
Nueva Alianza Photos
I wish I had taken more photos of the beautiful scenerey. But everytime I took one, it just was not as beautiful as it is in real life...and I didnt want to waste my memory of the views with unsatisfying photography. ...
the country life
... nbsp; I am once again in the midst of the endearments of rural living. Living an hour away from the closest market and without refrigeration has caused a considerable challenge for my preferred diet of fruits and veggies, which don't last too long in the ...
End of 24 hour bus ride
... of July started with me getting on a bus at about 9 am and going on a 24 hour excursion through three countries and ending up in Spain. I was the only American on the bus, all the rest being Aussies. From now on whenever someone asks me what language I ...