Hotel Nelva Murcia

... mountains...I have to say, Spain is very mountainous. The route through the mountains has some lovely views but some of the roads are a bit scary with very narrow roads, steep drops off the sides and a couple of very steep and sharp hair-pin bends that are not easy to negotiate in the camper van, especially with no power steering.

After visiting the old town which is not very spectacular, we went down to the Port.
The ...

... of Biscay which can be very stormy, fingers crossed it will be a fine crossing. We land at 8.00 am Friday morning and then we drive across Spain to the Costa Calida where we plan to spend a few weeks in a small Spanish village called Roldan, then we move on to a town called Lo Pagan,

Well would you believe it? I've been working for the last 2 days. A friend of Dave's who I met a couple of weeks ago needed a Brickie to build a couple of pillars. So, I dusted off the old trowel. It's been a long time but you never lose it.

Amanda is back tonight. I'm picking her up at Alicante Airport at about 11.30pm. Lucy and me have really missed her and we are both looking forward to seeing her...Ahhh.

I got up nice and early and was outside the Bank at 8.30 when they opened. I explained the situation and they asked me for the fax receipt which I didn't have. After a lot of huffing and puffing by the cashier she went and got out my paper file. Low and behold there was the receipt that they neglected to give to me the last time. It was duly resent and this time I made sure I had both receipts...Memo to self...Make sure you ...

... the air traffic from Alicante or Murcia.

So there I am playing with the remote control of my new toy when everything goes off! What's up? I check out the fuse box but everything is OK. Looking out of the window I can see the man from Iberadola driving off...I've been cut off again..AGHHH!

Phoned the electric company who tell me they have no record of the payment from 2 weeks ago so I need to go to the Bank and get them to re-send it but of course the Bank has just closed ...

We have been having a really lazy time for the past 10 days or so except for the cleaning and unpacking of course. Apart from a couple of bike rides into San Miguel one of the neighboring towns we haven't been far.

The weather has remained ...

... reply...Well this is Spain and everything happens Manana so what did we expect?

Another cold shower and ready to go out with the fading light...Amanda had to go to the hairdresser this afternoon as she could no longer stand not being able to do her hair!
We're going to treat ourselves to one of our favorite Restaurants "The Square" that should cheer us up...Well that's our excuse anyway.

Walking home, bathed in the after ...

Went down to the Bank to sort out the problem with the non-payment of electric Direct Debit.
The Bank faxed the payment through so we might get re-connected soon...Fingers Crossed.

Ah well...at least the weather is hot and sunny...We can sit in the sun while we wait for the electric.

Our friends, Kath and Dave who live at Torrevieja came over this ...

Well...those frogs can give the Spanish a lesson in motorway services...We awoke from our disrupted sleep, having managed to park next to a refrigerated lorry which started up every half hour throughout the night, ready for the last leg of our journey to Villa Martin.We decided to get a steel on the journey and catch breakfast in a couple of hours once we found somewhere a little better to eat at!

The van has started to ...

... lekker, wel veel werk aan; het waren namelijk hele vissen en ik hou zo niet van eten met oogjes :s we zaten er op een terras waar het ongelofelijk hard waaidde; volgens mij is de basis van de microobjesplaag in de week na mijn terugkeer, daar gelegd... terug in murcia gingen we eerst voor een ijsje :) dan voor een siesta, en daarna naar het centrum voor de grote avond... de belangrijkste avondstoet brengt zowat de hele stad op ...