Looking out to the resort area

Cartagena,Spain

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May 6th 2017
Geo: 37.6057, -0.991293Our excursion for the day was entitled La Manga and Roman Theatre, what a bore! The guide was quite boring, repeating herself endlessly, gave us a chance to catch up on our sleep on the way to La Manga, which turned out to be a very pretty tourist resort on a long thin spit which has the Med on one side and some other sea on the other, very pretty but unless you were actua ... read more

Europe » Spain

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more