Granada to Almería - Apartamentos de Torreluz
Today we caught the bus to the seaside city of Almería. The landscape on the bus journey was interesting, it was like passing through a dry and dusty desert, and we later found out that the area was used to film Westerns.
On arrival we checked in to our inner city hotel. As spacious as our room was, it wasn't easy to move to a hotel room when we'd been staying at airbnb's. Even when the bed isn't hotel standard and there isn't any service a hotel just can't match the space and convenience.
We decided to take a walk down to the beach and check out the town. It was a bit dismal, the promenade and beach was long but there was little shade and it was pretty quiet, nearly everything was closed and the buildings lining the seafront were tall and ugly. Of course, they do say that only mad dogs and and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
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| This beach is overcrowded |
Have we mentioned how many people smoke - lots of young girls too, it's when you're overseas that you realise that the sun smart and smoking lobbies have really worked in Australia but not in other places.
That evening we enjoyed the free tapas that comes with each drink and didn't need dinner at all - it seems that different towns have different ways of doing tapas. For example, in Sevilla the tapas was selected for us, whereas in Almeria we were asked to choose from a list (we definitely prefer the latter way of doing it).
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