Manolo Hotel Cartagena

... 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,<br>

... of wine for 25 Euros. They ranged in price from 0.65 Euros to 5 Euros. I didn&#8217;t know what all them were, but I figured that even if I didn&#8217;t like one or two of the wines, for those prices, I could afford to find out!<br><br>On the way back to the boat, I passed a bunch of other passengers from the Noordam. Had a couple of people ask where my cabin was so they could join the party! And I gave directions to the supermarket to all who asked. I was ...

... this for charity man, stop judging us. Unfortunately, the bus route map didnt help. so, we just followed our compass south until we accidently took a back road to a near by village. Then after seeing non motor way signs to a town we needed to get to we celebrated by sleeping on the grass. After a short sleep we followed the signs, which eventually led us on to a motor way, AGAIN. Nightmare. right, so we just gave up and set up camp in a near by national park ...

... didnt work in a camping stove. But this wont defeat us, so we made a fire! Unfortunatelly the fire, was to hot and deformed the aluminium pan which proceeded to tip over and pour our food on the ground. <br><br>Unfortunately, Unfortunately, Unfortunately.......Despite all of this I am thoroughly enjoying this trip because the good times destroy the bad times. And even the bad times are funny in retrospect.. . . Mike.

... and order Churrioes which they found hard to understand what we were ordering cuz its pronounced differnt than how it is spelt.<br><br>Later that evening we cooked some we wedges on the BBQ then we had those which sausage and curry sauce!<br><br>Then we went to a spanish bar which was quite exspensive but it was all locals except for 2 other english people.<br><br><br><br>

... spanish familes. <br><br>We went to a spanish bar and had a few drinks there and then we saw the road train which went back so we got onto it the lady came over for us to pay and started pointing at my eyes and speaking in spanish i think she was saying i had nice eyes lol!<br><br>We got the road train back to bolnuevo which played music and when u went past people everyone waved at you!<br>

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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 . <br><br> <br>

... we enjoyed traditional Spanish tapas. The highlight of our venture into Cartagena was the visit to the Roman Theatre. Rediscovered in 1987, the Roman Theatre was originally built dring the reign of Augustus Caesar more than 2000 years ago. It has been restored partially to allow visitors a glimpse of what it would have looked like in Ancient times and there is a museum ...

... of dozen kids learning to sail, each in his or her own little mini sailboat that couldn't hold more than one person. Most stayed in a tight, timid clump, but some drifted far off, and of course there was one who was always painfully behind and couldn't see to manage a straight line (That would have been me, I thought). I'll try to post pictures later, though that isn't going so well with this SLOW and spotty Internet "service."