Altea to Cartagena

I didn't ride too far today. The weather was not that great, cloudy and a little rain, so I decided to stop in Cartagena. This is a city with an incredibly long history so I was expecting to see some of it, but when I went out for a walk in the old part of the city it seemed like most of it was in ruins and pretty desolate. Maybe it was just the area that I was in, but I didn't find much in the way of tourist information. The drive from Altea to Cartagena was different from the coast to the east of Barcelona. Here it was all huge apartment blocks. Some of them really huge. They must all be tourist accomodations.

In the evening I went to a restaurant that was one of the most entertaining that I've been to. I got there at 8:00 pm, but it was too early for dinner. At exactly 9:00 everyone came in, and within 15 minutes the restaurant was full. It has been owned by the same family since the early 1900´s. The waiter and bartender were both drinking behind the bar, so they were a pretty happy lot.