Saturday 21st January
Victoria’s last day and another grey day though the sun did pop out for
a while. I feel so bad that her week’s
holiday has been marred by some of the worst weather that Mojacar has had in
January for many, many years. There was
even snow just a short way inland – crazy!
However, she did manage to swim in the sea and didn’t find it too cold!
We went down to the Parque Commercial to get a couple of last minute
presents and to have a coffee - this was when the sun came out :-) Back to the apartment to finish packing and
then to the Lemon Lounge for tapas – inside of course!
The journey down to Almeria was uneventful and we, including Muffin,
went into the terminal to see Victoria off.
I cried most of the way back to Mojacar.
I’m not sure if it was because my little girl had gone, she had had
rotten weather or if it was indeed the rotten weather that was making me
down. I guess it was a combination of
all three.
We called in for a cuppa with Ingrid and Bob so I could have a hug from
Ingrid – I really needed one.
Ingrid had organised a proper Spanish meal at a proper Spanish
restaurant but I really didn’t want to go but was persuaded to. We went to Restaurante la Capilla about a 20
minute drive at a place called Las Alparatas.
It isn’t the easiest of places to find in the dark as there is only a
sign on the top of the building which isn’t obvious. The restaurant is very nice indeed and the
two waiters lovely and attentive but the food wasn’t up to much and was
expensive. I can’t say that we would
recommend it.
Sunday 22nd January
A much better day today which didn’t help me really as I feel even more
sorry for Victoria.
We met Bob and Ingrid and went up to Villaricos to the market. The boys did a quick sweep of the market
whilst Ingrid and I perused it more fully!
I replaced my lost purse with a similar one but in blue as I reckoned
the pink was unlucky! Ingrid bought a
blouse and a gilet for Bob.
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| Now that’s what I call a cabbage! |
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| The black beach of Villaricos |
We joined the boys for a coffee and a light lunch – the café didn’t
seem to do tapas.
From Villaricos we went north up the coast – new territory for us. The coast road is lovely as it wends its way
through the rocky terrain.
We could see that some of the rocks had a sheen to them and apparently
The Sierra Almagrera mountains, which stretch for about 10km, used to have
dozens of mines, going back to prehistoric times. Silver, tin, sulphur, lead
and Iron were all mined here. Mining
ceased in the early 1960s.
We headed up to San Juan de los Terreros and stopped just before at
Playa los Nardos where a whole new town is in the process of being
developed. I think it’s mainly a tourist
destination but there seemed to be a few long term residents.
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| Bob stopped to try out the exercise area! |
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| Looking towards San Juan de los Terreros |
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| Nice beachside cafe |
It was then up to San Juan de los Terreros which seems to be an old town
but is being expanded on a very large scale.
It was getting late so we didn’t really see much but will go back again
one day. We said goodbye to Ingrid and
Bob – we will see them back on Hayling Island.
Richard and I got rather lost going out of the town – there are a lot of
new roads and Google maps seemed to struggle a bit. Still we drove home the longer, but quicker,
way home.
We were pretty shattered and had a very quiet evening and as we had had
lunch I didn’t need to cook :-)
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