Day 24 - It seems we don't eat enough

Almería

We decided to collect our hire car a day early so that we could drive around the surrounding hills and towns as it seemed we would be struggling to spend the whole day in Almería. We picked the car up from the airport and headed for the ceramic town of Nijar. You couldn't quibble with the quantity of pottery, but the style wasn't to K's taste, so all we bought was two little trinkets.

We then drove to Sorbas, this is in the area where a great many Hollywood westerns were made - there is even a Mini Hollywood theme park where they reenact the saloon shoot downs that were filmed there, but in the town itself there wasn't much to see.


From there we headed to the coast, lunching on the beach at a place called Cabo de Gata. We decided to share a dish of snapper, though the waiter wasn't impressed and said it was too small to share. We looked around and everyone else had huge meals to themselves - of course the Spanish eat their main meal in the middle of the day, for us it it was just a snack to tide us over until our next ice cream!

Nice place for a seafood lunch

From there we drove to San Jose where we found that ice cream, then to Las Negras, then bypassed Almería and checked out Roquetas de Mar, finally returning to Almeria and stopping at the far end of the beach we walked along yesterday for drink.

By then it was 9pm, too early to be thinking of dinner so we parked the car, then wandered the streets until we found another place that served free tapas with a drink - dinner was sorted!