Blogs from Almería, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 5

Treinta días de vacaciones. ¿Qué destino elegir? India! Sí, claro. India era mi mejor opción. Me la tenía prometida y este era el momento de regalármela. Compré el billete e inmediatamente puse algunos anuncios en distintos foros de viajeros para buscar compañero/a para la aventura. Si nadie aparecía, pues la aventura sería más aventura y haría el viaje en solitario. Pero no tardaron en aparecer los emails solicitando información sobre mi itinerario o proponiéndome otras alternativas. Y apareció Lola, catalana, 50 años y con los mismos intereses. Ambos teníamos mucha curiosidad por descubrir India y no resultó difícil acordar itinerarios, presupuestos y comprobar que existiesen ciertas afinidades socio-culturales para asegurarnos de que el viaje resultase confortable para ambos. Para adversidades, la India ya nos ofrecería lo suyo. Lola pudo conseguir los días de vacaciones coinc... read more

I am in Gabo de Gata park in South-East Spain. It is considered to be the desertiest area of Europe, with the source coming from Africa. The spaniards refer to it as la mierda de España. I disagree. We are part of a community of young people who run a farm. The farm is amazing - goats, pigs, dogs, cats, donkeys, chickens, geese, germans. So beautiful and a great community to live in. We have a garden that is STILL in december giving salads, tomatos and other deliciousness. The sea is on the horizon and the mountains are all around. We see the Sierra Nevada, snow covered, from our roof. And the seclusion! You never hear the cars and trucks, only the rooster crowing (all night, there are five terretorial males, and I haven´t felt more ... read more

Geo: 36.7643, -2.61493 GÜN 62 Günlerden Perşembe Akdeniz'e varınca ekabir ortamı gelişti. Reception 09:00 da açılıyor. Paramızı ödedik ama o kadar kolay kurtulamıyorsun. Şimdi de elektrik kablosunu sökmek için adam bekliyorsun. Nihayet hazret geldi. Kablomuzu kurtardık ve yola çıktık. Sahil yolu N 340 çok yoğun ve araba kullanmak inanın keyif değil. İspanyollar, Akdeniz güneş yolunun ( Costa Del Sol) içine, kısaca tek kelimeyle sıçmışlar. Vahşi bir betonlaşma var. Dağ taş beton olmuş. Duyan herkes ev almış ama şimdi başka yerlere tatile gidiyorlar. Aynen bizim Bodrum. Merak ettiğim konu ,Bodrum'luların bu aşamadan sonra, tatil için nereye gidecekleri ??? Hava çok sıcak . Sahil yolundan ve bitmez tükenmez "sera" arazilerinden geçerek, Almerias'a vardık. Seralara uzaktan bakınca naylonun rüzgarda kımıldamasından olacak, gri bi... read more

Travel blog 16 Thursday, 14th February Bad hair day! Got up today to Andy's comment that if the Queens guard had the same hairstyle as me they could do away with their busby's! That was it, caught next bus into Granada and found a hair salon with the the gayest hairdresser ever. He spoke no English so it was gesticulation communication which seemed to work. No water in Granada today so no wash, just a cut. Shame he did not speak English as I was dying for him to ask me if I had been anywhere nice on my holidays......... ! Really enjoyed wandering around Granada, which is a wonderful city. Very clean and we felt especially pleased when we saw first dog fouling penalty sign. Pity rest of Spain does not take note on this ... read more

I caught the 10:00 bus to Málaga, where I hung out for a couple hours before catching the 1:00 to Almería. The bus ride was one of the most scenic I've been on so far. We were only on the freeway for the first hour or so. After that, we followed the coast, and at times were on a road a few hundred feet above the water complete with hairpin turns. As we moved away from Málaga, the landscape became significantly drier. It also began to be filled with greenhouses, sometimes as far as the eye could see. They were a pretty big eyesore unfortunately, since they were all just white plastic. The bus took an astounding 5 hours to go 255km (a whopping 32 miles per hour overall). When we finally pulled in to Almería ... read more