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Yesterday we paid a visit to „Mini Hollywood“, an area of Western film studios close to Tabernas. Many well known movies (espescially „Italo Western“) were produced there, among them „A Fistful of Dollars“, „Once upon a time in the West“ („Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod“), „Der Schuh des Manitu“, „Indiana Jones“, etc. Tim stayed at home to finish his thesis and also due to the seat limit in our Twingo.

Despite of the heat we had a great time strolling through the fake Western City, attended a Western show (after which Susi kissed one of the actors, a gringo who was shot by an evil character early in the play) and had a few cold beers in the saloon. I even tried the piano in the saloon, but only shortly escaped to be arrested by the sheriff who complained about my bad practice at Chopin nocturnes 😉

The photos show two gringos imitating a scene from „A Fistful of Dollars“ and one of the gringos later at rest in front of the house of the blacksmith – never mind the phallus – ehm, the cactus 😉 The third photo shows the highly rewarded actor of the Western show mentioned above – a dwarft with a hoarse voice, by the way.

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„Mojácar Beach“ (which is different from „Mojácar Pueblo“, a pittoresque „white village“) is built in the following way: A stripe of sandy beach (some 10 kms long) is followed by the area of the „Chiringuitas“ (beach bars offering drinks, tapas and full menues, some of them even with live music or video presentations). The next stripe is the sea promenade, followed by the street. Next there is a stripe of shops, bars and restaurants, followed by a stripe of houses and smaller hotels(some of them – like ours – grouped around communal pools in settlements). The last stripe is simply desert (in our case the Sierra Cabrera, yet offering wonderful jogging areas in form of the dry river valleys, the so called „Ramblas“ – if you start early: at 9 am it is too hot!).

This time my photos show Mojácar pueblo (taken on one of my safaris when a wasp stang me in the neck) and „dos chicas“ (two girls) chilling out in one the Chiringuitos near the house. There is more to come …

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We arrived in Mojácar at around 8 pm. The temperature was still above 30 degrees (C). So before we could take a closer look at the house we had to open all the windows and doors and let at least a little breeze in. We all soon ended up in the pool which is a communal pool (shared with a few other houses like ours), but for this moment the pool was ours! After a refreshing bath we „arranged“ the rooms, explored the kitchen and went out to have Paella in one of the Chiriguitos (beach bars) nearby.

The photos show Susi in the (communal) pool and give you a first impression of the beach. There is more to come …

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On the trip we had a stopover in Barcelona. We arrived in the evening and made our way to the hotel in the Gothic Quarter. After we all had had a shower (it was really hot in Barcelona), we went to have dinner in the famous restaurant „La Fonda“ (thanks for the correction!). As usual we had to queue for 45 minutes to get in: But the menu was delicious and worth every second of waiting. The other day we had breakfast in Port Vell and strolled along Las Ramblas. Well, the ladies did some shopping in the attractive boutiques … And Mike got a FC Barcelona dress, of course. Barcelona would ruin me, if we’d stay longer than 24 hours 😉

The photo shows Susi, Lisi and Mike at Plaza Catalunya. The other one gives an impression of Las Ramblas.

We left Barcelona on July 23rd in the evening, took the plane to Almeria where the rented car was waiting for us. We drove to our final destination Mojácar, which was a 45 minutes drive through the „desert“. More about the house and the coast soon …

Mojácar is one of the „white villages“ (pueblo blanco) in the South East of Spain (Andalusia), some kilometers North of the Cabo de Gata. The map below gives you an idea of Mojácars location in relation to well known places like Granada, Malaga and Almeria.