Day 26 - Do these people ever sleep?

San Jose de Los Terreros to Alicante - Santa Barbara Guesthouse

We were woken up early to the sound of a thunderstorm and heavy rain, and we were also surprised to find it quite cool as well, apparently the storm was all over Spain. 

The rain in Spain falls mainly on us ...

We first drove to Murcia to meet up with another Spanish friend, Alicia. Alicia took us on a tour of Murcia on foot in the rain. We visited the normal sites in the town centre (cathedral, etc.) and finished off with lunch before driving on to Alicante.

The hotel was quite tricky to find as we traipsed on foot back and forth and up and down the narrow winding streets, eventually the hotel manager found us, coming up to us on the street and asking our name. We tried some Italian for dinner, as we were so close to Italy surely the food would be OK? Wrong again, last time for us, we will wait until we get home!

We headed back to our hotel only to find that we still haven't adjusted as well as we thought to Spanish time, since as we were heading off to sleep about 12.30am the place was just starting to wake up. People chatting in the street, a 2 year old playing on play equipment in the middle of the night outside our window - the noise went on for hours!