Stormy Weather!

 We said goodbye to Cabopino, Cliff and Irene and set off for Roquetas de Mar. It had rained all night and was very windy and the drive was a bit hairy due to high winds. However this was nothing to what was to come. . . .

Camping Roquetas is quite basic but OK for a short stop over and we were very much in the minority and surrounded by Germans. It was very windy all night and dust storms arrived, we woke up to find Monica covered in a light film of dust. 

On Thursday we walked into the nearest town looking for lunch and found a good tapas bar, loads of free tapas on the menu but we bought some too, we had a couple of glasses of wine which cost more than the tapas.

More storms over night bought yet more dust and we woke up to a murky haze. Mr C did his best to clean the dust off Monica, we then set off on the 2 hour journey to Mazarron, close to Cartagena. We took the toll road which was practically empty! More rain en route. 

After setting up at the campsite I did some laundry and got verbally abused by a German lady for not getting my clothes out of the drier at PRECISELY the right time. I said to her “calm down keep your jackboots on” or words to that affect, good job she didn’t understand English!

Camping Las Madriles has indoor and outdoor seawater swimming pools which are a pleasant temperature and we enjoyed a swim in both. We had intended to go to Cartagena on Saturday but it was blowing a gale and raining again so gave it a miss.

On Sunday we woke up to sunshine at last! We walked to nearby busy restaurant for a lovely lunch. 

The weather looks to continue to improve as we move on to Alicante area tomorrow.






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