{"id":4487,"date":"2012-06-15T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:08:55","slug":"day-19-thursday-june-14-almerimar-to-retamar-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=4487","title":{"rendered":"Day 19, Thursday, June 14 – Almerimar to Retamar, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful cool morning\"\"<\/a>and best of all there was no wind, yet! \u00a0We didn’t even complain about the two mile climb we had to get back to our course. \u00a0But as is usually the case, the climb offered us a nice view\"\"<\/a>of the sea of condos we’d just left\u00a0\"\"<\/a>and the hills we had to climb. \u00a0We were still surrounded by greenhouses loaded with vegetables.\"\"<\/a>This one’s for Robyn. \u00a0You will disappointed to know that we have yet to see ‘chips and salsa’ on a menu, but we did find you plenty of tomatoes to make your own.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally broke free of the ‘plastico’ and once again enjoyed pretty towns\"\"<\/a>and beautiful, yet deserted beaches.\"\"<\/a>As we understand that is soon to change, the season opens July 1; in the meantime we will thoroughly enjoy the beach to ourselves (almost).\"\"<\/a>We continued to enjoy great towns \"\"<\/a>and moderate climbing despite the mountains that continued to loom around every turn.\"\"<\/a>There were several tunnels\u00a0\"\"<\/a>that had maintained the original road<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>so, not only did we avoid tunnels, we also had great views\"\"<\/a> from the edge of the cliffs.\"\"<\/a>We had not packed a lunch, so enjoyed a the view from a beachside bar.\"\"<\/a>Have we mentioned that today is a gorgeous day?! \u00a0Amazing what the lack of wind in your face will do to you demeanor. \u00a0In between a couple of towns was this wonderful boardwalk\"\"<\/a>which we had all to ourselves. \u00a0We had promised ourselves a shorter day today, so we could enjoy a little rest. \u00a0So at 40 miles we stopped along the beach and checked into a ridiculously large hotel. \u00a0One 140 meter pool and the recreational pool that was so large it had an island in the middle of it.\"\"<\/a>The rest of this is pictures of our Pig-Out, salad\"\"<\/a>pizza<\/p>\n

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and a huge bowl of Bolognese, just too embarrassed to put that picture in, too.\n\t\t