Monday, January 08, 2007
Thursday 30th November – La Manga, Spain
We spent two fruitless days trying to locate some canons but we were not successful. One set was used for the film “The Guns of Navarone” were located near a golf course. We of course, walked through the golf course and were subsequently told off! We turned back and after one other wrong turn decided to give up. The next day we decided to follow instructions to go to some guns in Mazzaron but failing to find the route indicated we also gave up and decide to not look for guns any more! The boys of course were most disappointed after being promised some spectacular guns on two occasions and then being disappointed by their parents inability to locate them.
On the final day we decided to drive down the La Manga, the thin strip of land that creates the harbour. This drive was extremely disappointing. You will be pleased to hear that after 3 days of rain this area was largely flooded but was also just one long strip of high-rise apartment blocks obscuring the sea, even though the sea was within a hundred yards of the road on each side. We couldn’t help thinking that in the height of the tourist season this would be the last place you would want to be.
We did however drive up and over a near vertical bridge where we had to use the hill decent button. Jon particularly enjoyed himself. We had some overpriced and disappointing greasy fish and chips from an English shop to round off the morning nicely.
