10/27 The Granddaughters Arrive!

 Our last visitors for this time in El Campello arrived on Tuesday.  

I had to take a photo of this sign in the parking garage of the Alicante/Elche Airport.  It was a large elevator!  I'm sure it meant - don't drive your car into the elevator.  Darn it - use the ramps to get out of the garage.

After dark we went out to walk along the waterfront and find a restaurant open for pinchos.  We found a great one - but no photos were taken - just food was consumed!

10/26 Moon Shots

 On Monday the 26th there was a full moon.  The sun sets and the moon rises at almost the same time.  I learned a new word for it - Syzygy. There are scientific reasons of why the sky and sea are so pink.  It has something to do with Rayleigh Scattering and Twilight Afterglow.  I have not seen this before here in El Campello.  It was beautiful.

This was a lot later after dark.

10/25 Visit from Niece RM

 We were happy to fit in a visit by RM to our El Campello home away from home.  I believe it is her third time visiting us here.  She comes by train from Madrid which lets us visit another part of Alicante.  This time her arrival time on Friday, coincided with lunch time so we found a sidewalk cafe on our walk back to the parking garage.  Michael and I got Menu del Dia and RM got two appetizers.  The food came quickly and was tasty - Spanish comfort food.  We got way too much and when we tried to ask for take away - I think the waitress just ignored us.  I'm pretty sure she understood what we were asking for as RM has pretty advanced Spanish.  We stopped at Carrefour so RM could stock up on her favorite English food products.

First - photos from my morning walk.

Proof of healthy eating.  Salad and artichoke with dipping sauce.  Ignore the wine!

A photo of the rising moon on the way back on Sunday evening after we had dropped RM off at the train station.  

We spent the weekend taking walks, eating food late into the night Spanish style at beach bars and doing a lot of talking.  RM is the daughter of my brother Gerry who recently passed away in August.  Lots of reminiscing on both the great things about him and also some not so good things that resulted from childhood trauma.  None of us passed through life unscathed.  I miss him a lot.

10/22 Cartagena Part 3 or the end.

We thought it was time for the night shoot.  But it is still too light.  There are so many areas that are being reconstructed - and lots of graffiti.

Here we could put our cameras through the fence to get a shot of the archeological area.

These green fences were everywhere.  Paintings on the walls were interesting.

The name of the archeological site.

Now heading back into old town.

Statue with no head.

I couldn't decide if these ladies were just resting or were purposefully meeting here.  There were children playing in this square as well.  We found a bar and sat down to have a drink to wait until it was dark.  Then headed off towards our hotel.

Store window.

I took various photos of this guy.  Earlier in the day we had seen employees trying to hand out samples of things he was making. Here there is a person on the right.

Now it is just him.

Then we are back at the main square.  The light is great.

But can you see the statue of the young boy?

Walking back to our hotel.

In Burgers we Trust!

A green grocer.

Michael was still hungry so we stopped at this Japanese Ramen shop close to our hotel.

And then the evening is done.  People are still out eating.  But we head for our hotel and a good nights sleep.