Blogs from Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain, Europe

Today we took our time getting up since we didn't have anything planned until the train from Alicante to Murcia at 2:50pm. We walked a few blocks to the bus stop, and took the bus almost straight to the train station, Alicante Termino. Arriving at the train station in plenty of time, we just sat around waiting for them to call our train. The Alicante Termino is very modern, as was our train to Murcia. It was almost an Ave, which is the high speed train in Spain. We had reserved seats, next to each other in the back of car 4. Pretty soon, we were off. The scenery along the way was pretty cool, and the train only made 3 stops, I think, before reaching Murcia del Carmen train station. Again, we decided to take ... read more

Bonjour à tous, Petite journée. Ce soir je suis en pleine campagne à une vingtaine de km de Murcia, au milieu des citronniers, orangers, oliviers, un hôtel super, mais il ne faut pas avoir envie se sortir le soir. Hier à Dénia, j'étais carrément sur la plage, mais comme disent les québécois, l'hôtel manquait d'amour, propre, mais la bâtisse un peu négligé, par contre, pour un de resto de plage la paella copieusement garnie, délicieuse pour un prix dérisoire de 11e. Plus je descent dans le sud, plus le petit déjeuner est servi tard, ce matin 9h, demain idem, ce qui me fait décoller tard. J'ai Murcia de programmé sur le gps, toujours sans péage. Pour sortir de Dénia et reprendre la nationale, vers Altéa, soit 20km j'ai du mettre 45 mn, dans cette configuration, la ... read more

On the road again! After the problems we'd had finding a pitch last week, we e-mailed ahead to a couple of ACSI Campsites last night, and booked a couple of nights on Camping La Fuerta, near Fortuna, north of Murcia. Arrived about 16.00. It's busy, because the weather is still lovely, and I suspect hey only had room for us because it's well inland. The bar, restaurant and pool are all fully open, and all the facilities look good. The photo is looking over the site, from the (elevated) bar/pool/restaurant area. 1471km now, so 138 today.... read more

Daynie visits Grandaddy d in Campo Verde and Benidorm trip, aged 5 1/2 months with Mummy and Daddy. 1st trip abroad.... read more

Finally! Friday crept around and Clay, Hannah, Kristin, Kim, Meg and myself headed off to Alicante in southern Spain as a belated extension to Clay’s 30th birthday celebrations for some much needed vitamin D. We flew in on the Friday evening and picked up the hire car. I nominated myself to drive though I had never driven on the right or in a left side drive car before. It wasn’t as difficult as I imagined though there were certain things I went to do automatically which I had never thought about, like going to change gears and I kept slamming my hand into the door until I learnt that the gear stick was now on the right. We found our villa and went out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. The first thing we ordered – ... read more