Day 9: Calasparra

The boys had finished cycling by 2.30 today, yippee!! Managing to avoid the hottest of the heat. 

I arrived at the hotel, which was 4 miles out of town and therefore 4 miles further than the boys had thought they were cycling. Not ideal. Booking.com and trip advisor have it listed in the wrong place... Nice one. When I got there though, from the little English the reception lady spoke, with my little Spanish, it dawned on me that we weren't going to be staying there that night. I didn't quite understand what the problem was, either they were fully booked or had only booked us one room. 

Most places struggle to understand why one girl has booked two rooms, for four people... My Spanish is bad, but I can muddle my way round saying everything I need correctly, but they always assume I have it wrong and must be mistaken. I drew her a picture to confirm that it was indeed correct, what I had booked was what I wanted. But they didn't have it. Ah well. 

 

She was very nice and helpful, and phoned round the other hotels in the town and found me a "solution" in the form of a much nicer hotel, in the centre of town. The hotel I arrived at was way nicer. And apparently I will only be charged what the first place were going to charge me. 

Unfortunately the boys didn't get my message about the change of address until they had cycled the additional 4 miles out of town the the other hotel... Oops. 

So we have a whole afternoon to do things and have a nice evening. 

I don't know how to say "half past" in terms of time, so we've got breakfast at 6am which is a little early but it's better than 7. Tomorrow is again going to be hot, but it should cool off after that.