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Well I accidently just published the lastt post too early.... so here is Cabo de Gata continued. It is just a village of about 1000 people right on the Mediterranean. At this time of year we were clearly the only tourists there, other than people from Denmark in motor homes, and so everyone stared at us and laughed at us... we get laughed at lots.
We ended up eating breakfast and dinner both days at this little restaurant on the water where we could pick up a little Wi Fi on Karoll's phone. The breakfasts were so good - fresh fruit and bread - and it was just very relaxing.

 We decided to rent bikes on our first day there and bike down the coast. We gave 10 euros to this bossy little man in a grocery shop and then he hooked us up. He also hooked us up with hilarious, huge high vis vests that we were supposed to wear if we biked at night. Needless to say, we made it home by dusk hahahah. We got laughed at enough, the last thing we needed was to be the glowing foreigns biking down the beach.
We biked along the road down to a little town called Los Salinas (or something along these lines) and weaseled a beer out of a closed pub. We sat on the beach and hung out for a few hours then biked back. Probably 2 or 2.5 hours biking in all - very tiring, because I'm very out of shape.

This was really an amazing little village. The peopl were so so nice to us and although it was totally the off season, they were very accomodating. On our last night there we went to the little restaurant that we'd been frequenting, and looked at the menu, and decided to leave. It was way over our budget and so we tried to sneak out (it was empty, so this was hard). The guy working, Manu, spotted us and we were like deer in headlights . So i just blurted out "mercado"... we are goign to the super market to get dinner... which would have been another freaking can of tuna or something. He kind of laughed and then asked if it was too expensive. Karoll said yes and so he said he'd make us dinner, pasta, for 11 euros including wine. We agreed and he made us a bolognese pasta and poured us wine and it was wonderful. We ate so much and he was soo happy . I told him that I"m Italian and don't ever order pasta because it's usually disappointing, but that this was impressive and we were so happy.

He ended up being an artist and showed me his work online and then we exchanged emails. He was really happy to meet us and his art is reallllllly awesome - I'm very happy.

We left Cabo de Gata in the morning and then caught a night bus from Almeria to Barcelona (WORST IDEA EVER< EW ).
I will post pictures of that in my next post, but may not write it too because I don't have time.

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