Meandering through Spain 2024

Having failed to get in at a couple of campsites on the Alicante coast, we decided to head inland instead. Surprisingly the same thing happened there - the 2 places we identified were both full too! Yet again we were shocked at just how popular this area is as an all year round tourist destination 😊 Anyway, as luck would have it, the owner of the second failed campsite, Maria, messaged us and said she had a friend in a neighbouring village with a campervan aire, that he had space, and if we liked she would speak to him and book it for us as his English was quite limited - and that’s how we ended up at the old finca in Alcalalí, within the Vall de Pop 😊 What an absolutely great find it was too!  In former times the old old finca had been used to breed and train bulls, and has retained the original bull ring in the centre within which horses are now kept. The area has been developed with loads of tropical plants and flowers, horse carriage paraphernalia, and vans park freely around...

The Murcia region is an area we’re unfamiliar with, but having read that it gets the most daily hours of sunshine all year round, in the whole of Spain, we were keen to explore more 😃 The city of Cartagena seemed more appealing to us than Murcia itself, so that’s what we plumped for. There are a couple of campervan aires on the outskirts of the city, but actually getting a space proved more difficult than we realised, as all booked up. Eventually we got the nod that a place had become available, so we arrived at Finca Bazul which would be our base for a couple of days (all we can seem to manage in a city 🤣) Having secured the parking space we booked onto a walking tour for the following day - history and tapas tour of Cartagena 😃 Surprisingly there wasn’t much sun, and it was fairly chilly, but we embraced it nonetheless. The owner of the Finca drove us down to the harbour in his taxi to meet Carmello, our host for the tour. It was Valentine’s Day, so lots of heart shaped and flower...