Photos - Spain - Almeria

The drive from Marbella to Almeria took 6 hours, for half of the journey we were treated(!) to the sight of the plastic greenhouses of the area. Someone, somewhere is getting a big kickback for allowing these blots on the landscape to continue. However, when we arrived at our site in the national park East of Almeria there were none to be seen. The countryside looked very much like the hills of Wales, but yellow instead of green, without the sheep, or the Welsh; but it did have the bad weather.

On the first night the storm arrived. As we drove home through the national park after an evening visit to Almeria town, the countryside was lit like daylight by the lightening - very spectacular. Unfortunately the rain stayed, persistently, for the next two days and nights.

The site was very quiet

The site itself, like the area, was very Spanish; a total contrast to the Marbella area and a welcome change. There were no English bars and the beaches are open and deserted.

The local town which is called San Jose (so now we know the way to San Jose) is just what you would want from a Spanish village. Not commercialised and a friendly little place. In fact, there was only one ex-pat, David who run the book exchange.

We also went for a ride up the coast to see the area I had visited last year on a property search weekend. However, we never got to the final complex as the road had a river running down it and was impassable, very prudent not to buy there then. All this in the driest area in Europe, typical.

All this seclusion is nice for a break, but this was just a bit too quiet and too isolated. Time to move on.

Luckily we did not pick the pitch opposite

The plastic greenhouses are an eyesore

Cowgirl
(notice the storm in the background)

Indian head massage only 50 cents

They have an attraction to guns

Debbie got bored on a long journey and took this self portrait

I just went mad

This area was used for filming 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

This page last updated 08-May-2006