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...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, Murcia Region
Murcia is blessed with fantastic countryside and one of the best ways to get out to places, that you would otherwise only wonder about as you drive by on the motorway, is a newish pursuit called ‘geocaching’. Geocaching came about when gadget freaks wanted...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Murcia Region
My friend Javi runs the Feria International Cerveza Murcia in the Plaza de Universidad in Murcia (how curious to be so close to the University!) His facebook page and fan club is growing and he’ll have his own website for the Feria soon. Take a look at the...
