Posadas De España Cartagena

The day as finally arrived to begin our 6 month break, away from the damp, wet climate of Mid Wales. The plan is to drive from here to Portsmouth to catch the Pride of Bilbao ferry bound for Bilbao, a journey that takes about 36 hours. The only part to worry about is the crossing across the ...

We didn't have any plans for Cartagena. None of the excursions that HAL had planned sounded exciting and when we researched things to do in Cartagena, nothing looked appealing. So I went in search of plentiful cheap wine to stock up for the long ocean crossing to come (I hate paying the exorbitant prices for alcohol in bars and restaurants)&#8230; <br><br>So I found a supermercado in Cartagena with excellent prices and a good selection of wine. I ended up buying 9 ...

... no choice we planned to cycle 5 miles down the motorway to get to the next town (no other option mum, blame the Spanish for poor project management and wasting money on statues of imaginary people)<br><br>Highlights: <br>We asked someone watering there garden for water and she took us into her house and gave us threee unopened botttles of mineral water.<br><br>we made lemonade from liberated lemons and water.<br><br>Lowlights:<br>The lemonade tasted like ****<br>

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.<br><br>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.<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>

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.

We were here during a national holiday. Unfortunately, we did not have any Euros on us and couldnt get any b/c the banks were closed. We thought it would be ok if we went for a quick lunch (since we couldnt pay to do anything else) and planned on ...

Day two, i slept until 1000 am by which time Sallie and Ray, ray having been ill during the night had left to wander round the town. Vic and I had a light (continental) breakfast as we missed the cooked breakfast and went for a wander round the town. Categena is a very quiet town and other than a few historic sights not a lot to do, so after a good wander round and a cup of ...