Hotel La Cumbre Mazarron

... and the marina are excellent. We took the opportunity to try out the Tapas at one of the sea front restaurants. The food was excellent and great value for money.

We both agree that as we had brought Lucy along that we could have stayed over in the Camper but we had put a casserole on in the slow cooker at home so we had to go back...We are definitely revisiting Mazarron and will be staying over next time.

... in sweat by the time I got back to the ship. It was hot out, I had 9 liters of wine I was carrying, and it was about 2 miles from the supermarket to the ship.

Jacqui had spent the morning in the spa so we met back in the room when I got back to the ship and had showered off. Then we went back out and walked around the downtown area again. By that time, everything had already closed for Siesta. I’m still not sure why we stopped in Cartagena at all…

... water on his head to cool down Olly offered a kind gesture.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Would you like me to hose you down whilst you rub yourself" - Oliver Williams. (I would like to point out that he said this legitimately with no intention of irony.)

Highlight: We saw a shop which sold electronic products called Electrohouse
Lowlight: We slept on a beetle infested mound

... after a few miles of cycling. Murcia basically has about 6 motorways going through it. Cant cycle on these. cant navigate because of our incredibly basic A3 map of spain. So we went and bought a beer. Then, a bit drunk (what!? it was hot and we were dehydrated from cycling) we aimlessly cycled around until we found a more detailed map behind some perspex glass, up a lamp post, at a bus stop. Probably shouldnt have taken it but desperate times.. . . . we are ...

Last night we went to a spanish beach bar which was right on the beach no English people were there and non of the bar staff spoke English which i really like! I like to see a country from the locals no touristy areas.

Today we went to the Puerto de Mazzron in the day we got a bus down which was half hour late! We went to a restaurant which we had previously been ...

... all the back roads which were terrible and really bad and bumpy. We arrived on the port and went to a pub which was run by an English women, stayed there for one drink and then went for a walk there was a spanish punch and judy show (In spanish) we stood and watch that for ten minutes! It was strange because it was 11:15pm and there was spanish kids everywhere still up and it was packed ...

I woke up at 6am and i could see the light in the distance over the mountain. I could also hear crickets really loud which didnt really bother me and in the distance on a saturday night there was an all night rave which i could hear the music booming and quite clear but it didnt seem to wake me up in the night that went on till 8am.

Sunday was the day they have the market so we set of at 8am towards the port to go to the market when we got there most of it was set up but some stores ...

... and grandad for dinner. It was a bit to early still very hot and much people didnt go out for dinner untill 10pm but went to a spanish restaurant and i had difficulty understanding the menu. We all ordered Pollo Y En Salada which is chicken and Salad.

It cam with flat potatoe and a really nice salad and the chicked was very tasty but a bit greasy but i really enjoyed it then we had a couple of drinks in the spanish bar .

One may think that with the trouble we had in getting here, we weren't meant to be here. There was a fire on another train aheadd of us, and we were delayed 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 went to school while we still slept.

... understand they have bureau de change's all over the UK so I went down and was really impressed with the service. Furthermore the exchange rate was fantastic and they were really friendly, offering a personal service which I liked.

Whilst I was there I noticed they helped with large individual money transfers for people emigrating abroad. Approaching late 50s this is something me and my wife have considered at some length.

Not knowing ...