Iberia 16/17 – murcia

Posted: March 19th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: fun, trips and notes | No Comments »

if I want to start a new story, I should finish this one first, right…

for this effort, I have to pay tribute to a recent meeting with a childhood friend, who made me feel ashamed for not finishing what I have started – so, here it is, the beginning of the end.

it has been months since then but I recall that taking pictures had become tedious and I wanted to be headed home already; we leave Granada quickly and decide to reach Barcelona in 2 instead of the planned 3 days by sacrificing our visit to Valencia as well as a few other places on the way such as Alicante and Cartagena.

Andalucía bids us farewell with its desert landscape strangely combined with water

and it causes an unambiguous physiological reaction 🙂

we do not miss the chance to stop by this weird theater

which is literarily situated in the corn fields in the middle of nothing, ?!+%=”?:=+?! There are about thirty houses around us which I can say, at the most, looked like a mining village

in the evening, we arrived in Murcia, so what – it doesn’t really matter where we are going to sleep…

but it is never all the same what we are going to eat 🙂

I love the tiny squares of Spanish towns – they appear out of nothing in the most peculiar of places 🙂

a group of old men sitting nearby – beer and olives

after dinner, we come upon the town’s one week celebrations

sometimes, I get the feeling that one day my grandchildren will ask me “but, grandma, why was grandpa there all by himself? Why weren’t you with him?”… so, to prove them wrong, I locate the self-shutter of the way-too-complicated Nikon and – voila – here I am: