by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, food, Murcia Region
Sierra Espuna In May, we had elderly relatives on holiday with us and decided to try a day out to the Sierra Espuña National Park in Murcia. The Sierra Espuña is a vast mountain range and National Park, with many walking trails, view points and places of interest to...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, Murcia Region
Now me and Marcus (my husband) came up with a great idea in 2008 – let’s learn to drive a boat. It can’t be that hard, all sorts of idiots are allowed to drive boats, you just have to sit and watch at the Mar Menor on a sunny day to see how many...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Murcia Region, music
San Javier Jazz Festival 2009 Well we were a bit more savvy in 2009 and called up and ordered an abonos. This is like a season ticket and gets you into the vast majority of the gigs at a reduced price. You buy the abono and get seats assigned, where you sit for each...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Murcia Region, music
San Javier Jazz Festival We’ve lived in Spain for 5 years now, and up till 2008 had managed to miss the San Javier jazz festival entirely – probably due to the local newspaper’s crazy plan of telling you what happened yesterday (and how great it was)...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Cartagena, evergreen, Murcia Region, towns
Cartagena is a medium-sized town on the south-east coast of Spain, dominated by an industrial port and an illustrious naval history: the inventor of the submarine was from Cartagena, as commemorated by the huge grey prototype submarine from 1888 that squats down by...
