Cordoba and Fiesta Disasta!

 Wednesday 11th October: we averted a bit of a disaster on leaving the campsite, Bev our new BF was running after us gesticulating wildly, we thought she was waving us off, however Mr C had left the electric hook up plugged in to the mains so there we were with lead trailing behind us. Luckily we were stopping to empty the grey water so we would have spotted it.

Camping La Albolafia the next site is quite a distance from Cordoba but there is an infrequent bus service running from nearby Villafranca. So far so good. . . . ,

Thursday 12th October: We got up early to catch the 9am bus to Cordoba which takes 45 minutes, perfectly on time. We wandered around the old narrow streets and had intended to visit the Mezquita des Cordoba the Mosque Cathedral but it was closed for a service. We had lunch then took a slow walk back to the bus station. 

This is when we found out that today was Spains National Day or Dia de La Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de Espana whatever you want to call it! The return bus was not running. We had to fork out 45 euros for a taxi. Well I said to Mr C at least we saved 6 euros on the bus fare. That went down well.

Meanwhile back at the campsite the Spanish families had arrived intent on making as much noise as possible.

Well onwards and upwards - literally, next stop Ronda.











Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Supper in Sapa

Image
There are some very strange things on the menu in Sapa like porcupine, cervit cat, bamboo rat and horse you can have all of them stir fried. We settled for salmon and sturgeon hot pot one evening. So the bowl of stock is bought to the table and placed over a heater and you are given a basket of vegetables and a plate with the fish and tofu then you cook it all yourselves and eat with rice. We also ate street food at the night market, the menu also has some unappetising items such as sparrow, turtle dove and a frog. Everything is barbecued over hot charcoal. Not the best place for vegetarians. We tried a few bits Mr C pork, Mrs C fish then went for a pizza. Vendors in the street are roasting chestnuts in abundance and they are very moorish. They go down very well with the tiny tangerines and fresh pineapple you can buy very cheaply. Coffee is a bit hit and miss and the coffee that the hotel serves for breakfast is vile, luckily I have bought my own coffee bags - thank you Sainsbu...
Read more

Stormy Weather!

Image
 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 ...
Read more