Day 7 - Cartagena

Our port today was Cartagena. We docked very close to the town and it was a lovely port. Lovely views from all sides of the ship. The weather was light cloud, little sun but nice and mild with the temperature in the early twenties. Shorts and T shirt weather which is just fine.

The town was a lovely little town with two amphitheaters, one an old Roman one and we think the second a bit more recent. We never managed to get in but it’s on the list for next time. There were many nice buildings, churches and squares as we ambled around the town. There was also a medieval food festival on which was brilliant, Sharon asked a local policeman where to find it, he told us but insisted we take a picture of him. When he said to me ah, picture I said no it’s fine - he wasn’t taking no for an answer !! The market was brilliant with lots of food stalls (some quite good stuff not all the usual arsy farsy or green crap). There was a man there making crisps which was fascinating and Sharon just worked her way around the free samples 👍

We left around 4pm and were out on the open decks for the sail away, once again a great atmosphere and was brilliant to see the ship manoeuvre its way back out to the med. a guy turned up on his motorbike and played his bagpipes to us from the shaw as we sailed away. He got s huge round of applause and cheers from the decks the he just jumped back on his motorbike and off he went. One of the super yachts moored up beside us belonged to Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys and worth a cool $225 million !! His mortals were having a tidy up for him arriving and chucking the jet ski’s in the back !!!

Sat chatting to a guy on the deck with a drink late afternoon , his wife was from Zimbabwe but they both now live in Rotherham, when we asked where he was from he said “I was born in a small village in Nottinghamshire called Langold”. Would you believe it, either his brother or his uncle (I think he said uncle) owned the sweet shop on White Avenue - Mr Pemberton - I remember him well. Then his wife proceeded to tell us how she loves using Johnson Brothers for Uk breaks - turns out she knows our Arron ! Small world.

Hot tub tonight to watch Ghostbusters, nice and warm in there but obscured view so didn’t really see what it was about but a chilled night nonetheless.

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