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Blogs from Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Spain, Europe
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February 11th 2011
Heute haben die Camper Helga, & Andreas, Annemarie, & Wolfgang, Uschi, & Conny und Heidi mit Ferdinand als Organisator, einen Ausflug unternommen verbunden mit einem Besuch eines der seltenen Fischrestaurants von Cartagena. Die Daten des Restaurants sind : gegründet im Jahr 1952 die Spezialitäten sind alle Sorten von Fisch, Meeresfrüchte und Erfrischungen sowie hausgemachte Desserts und das allerwichtigste absolut Fangfrisch serviert, der Name ist „Techos Bajos“ und bedeutet niedrige Dächer liegt im Ortsteil Santa Lucia von Cartagena. Nach dem ausgiebigen Schmackifatz wurde ein Verdauungs-Spaziergang beschlossen entlang der Hafenpromenade wie auf den Bildern ersichtlich passierten wir unter anderem das erste U-Boot Spaniens entwickelt und gefahren von Senor Peral, unser Weg endete bei dem alten Yacht Club Royal de Veleros ,der heutige Standort ist 500 m weiter an der gleichen Pr... read more
November 14th 2010
In Granada the overnight temperature got down to about 1 degree and I was the coldest I've ever been! My sleeping bag was super cheap and is not very warm. My toes were so cold and numb that I thought I had frost bite. So we headed to the coast where it is much warmer! We're been in a small villiage called La Marina which is full of retired English and German's. On Friday we heard live music so we followed our ears and found a pub full... of oldies! They were celebrating a 50th wedding anniversary and didn't mind that we joined in. I was on the dance floor groovin' with all of them! haha. Rocking Friday night!!... read more
October 24th 2010
October 23-24 Valencia and Cartagena I thought Barcelona was beautiful, and it is but Valencia blew me away. I took a ships tour and we started out at dawn, 8:30 am, to visit the Caves of St. Joseph and an overview of the city. Just outside the port we can upon the City of Arts and Sciences. They really need to change the name of this area. It is a complex of museum, planetarium, opera house and aquarium that has been built on a dry riverbed. A river used to run through the center of town. Some years ago it flooded causing severe damage and loss of life. The river was diverted to prevent a reoccurrence and the question was what to do with the riverbed. The commercial interests lobbied for a highway but they lost ... read more
March 25th 2010
Left Valencia on 22 March and headed towards the south of Spain where we had rented an apartment in Malaga for the week starting 27 March. So had 5 days to get there. We'd booked a B&B in La Manchica which is a small village outside Fuente Alamo near Cartegena. This was the first time the weather has been good enough to get out on our bikes. Cycled into Fuente Alamo and found a WIFI friendly bar. Decided to go back next day and update blog to find that the bar electric was off so sat drinking cider with bar owner and some expats for rest of afternoon. Great fun. Took boat trip around Cartagena bay and got history of city and port. Its a beautiful city largely unknown to Brits. Spent the day exploring. There's ... read more
Getting ready ( practicing my blog )
Published: January 26th 2010Europe » Spain » Region of Murcia » CartagenaJanuary 26th 2010
Sitting in Spain thinking "what have I forgot to pack or forgot to do " before I leave for the UK in 2 days time , I am there for 15 days then straight to Peru and South America for 6 months , I cant believe I havent forgotten anything but never mind I am sure they sell toothbrushes in Lima.... read more
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Cartagena-La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia)--Land of Crystal Seas and Floating Castles
Published: August 2nd 2009Europe » Spain » Region of Murcia » Cartagena
August 2nd 2009
Hello Everyone. Empiezo mi primer viaje mundano en propias tierras españolas, concretamente en Murcia, la tierra del mar cristalino y los castillos flotantes, como a mi me gusta llamarla. Tomamos primero alojamiento en el pequeño municipio de Calasparra, aprovechando que teniamos un piso allí. Después nos dirigimos a Cartagena y La Manga del Menor, y contemplen ustedes mismos..simplemente wonderful... Como ahora soy NEW en esto, quiza es un poco chapuza, pero bueno, ya le ire cogiendo el truquito.. Hasta luego muchachos!!... read more
Murcia Regions' Mountains and Coast
Published: April 15th 2008Europe » Spain » Region of Murcia » Cartagena
March 29th 2008
Ola Bo & Dud, I forgot to tell you about something strange that I spotted en route to Fortuna. We left the motorway just after Murcia and immediately the scenery changed from being urbanized to rural countryside. Standing in the middle of nowhere was a young woman - low top and short skirt revealing more than enough of her body, and with knee high, black high heeled boots. As I was supposed to be helping look for camp site signs, I only caught a glimpse, but it struck me as being rather unusual. I suggested to Howard that this might be a working girl, but he dismissed this because of where she was and we began to speculate why she would be there. Well!! the following week when we had an outing we overshot our turn ... read more
December 19th 2007
Stopped in El Portus We spent a very pleasant if cold time travelling down through Spain. Bilbao was a wonderful revelation with the Guggenheim at the junction of the river front and the old town. We stayed out on the coast at Sopelena and caught the metro in to the town. Further south we met a bit of drizzly snow and then rain popping in to Gernika, Zaragoza, Teruel and Almanza. We skirted Murcia and then down to Caragena which is about 10 km away. The weather is fine but now cloudy. It's 16°C at lunchtime. Unfortunately, there is huge hill out of the campsite and so we have not yet put the tandem together. So we do a bit of walking and listen to Radio 4 on the internet in the van. We have ... read more
September 30th 2007
Eine Urlaubsreise per Segelyacht mit einer Crew die da war Sylvan (Schweizer) als Smutje, Holger (Deutscher) als Bootsmann und Ferdinand (Deutscher) als Skipper.Das Fahrtgebiet im Mittelmeer von Alicante bis Almeria da nur 16 Tage Urlaub zur Verfügung standen. Leinen los war dann Anfang September im Heimathafen Club Nautico La Isleta am Mar Menor/Spain an der Costa Calida (heisse Küste) mit einer Bavaria 32 unter dem Namen „Torbellino“ (z.D. Wirbelwind oder freche Göre) für die Namensgebung kommen nur feminine zur Auswahl. Angelaufen die Isla Perdiguera (zu Franco Zeiten ein Stützpunkt für seine Söldner mit Unterkünften, Stollen zur Lagerung von Munition, am Strand konnten sogar einmotorige Flugzeuge landen) zur Abwetterung einer Schlechtwetterfront. Durchfahrt des Kanals von Tomas Maestre um in das Mittelmeer zu gelangen, gegen Abend Einlaufen in den Hafen von Torrevieja ... read more
