Cariñena

We’re not very good at finding places to stop for coffee in Spain. Not sure why but this morning we drove around a couple of places before we found somewhere. I think it is the layout of towns or something. Anyway, we finally stopped in Cariñena and found a decent bar. Got back to the van and realised we’d parked right next to this place.

Also popped into a hardware store and bought some wire to try hacking some sort of repair to the awning.

My most common opening gambit in Spanish is rapidly becoming: “Lo siento, no hablo español muy bien.” followed by a garbled attempt to say something more complicated based on 3 weeks of Duolingo, followed by speaking English :-(.

The guy in the hardware shop this morning even said, “ah, you are English, so you only speak English” which was a bit hurtful (but, admittedly, technically correct). That said, I did manage to reserve a campsite stop for this evening by phone totally in Spanish this morning (about 3 sentences) so I am definitely improving! Ish. 😀Read more