Murcia

The bus took first about three hours to get to Vera, that was because it passed all the small streets and little villages in the mountains like Purchena, Olula, Albox which made the trip nice for the eye - even if I slept about half the time. This could made me a bit happier, since my mood before was quite bad, feeling like, besides from the time in Malaga with Isabel, the Andalucia kept confronting me with bad luck. But still it is a nice landscape worth another visit, at least because it has the sun I was missing in Germany already for years. From Vera, the bus took much shorter than expected to Murcia. It must have been a false information with 2:30am. The conductor told me, the expected arrival time was 1:00am even after a 30 minutes break somewhere in between. At 0:45am the bus was already in Murcia and at 1:00 Patricia and her friend Jose picked me up and took me to a bar outside the city where Patricia normally was working, but not that day, since she came back from travelling in Norway just a very few hours before - her baggage was still in Jose's car, so he might have picked her up short before me. I got to know that Patricia was original Brazilian and that one of her work mates was her niece. We had some drinks and played Billard, then we went to Patricia's home at about 3:00am. They offered me a comfortable guest bed and I had the feeling of a warm hearted welcome while I fell asleep soon. The next day, Patricia and I got up late while Jose already had left to play Petanque with friends. We two went for a little walk in the village, visited a bar she was working in some time before and then Jose picked us up to take us at the first bar. Patricia had to work that day since the place was booked by Brazilian families to have a birthday party there. As you can imagine, with the hot Brazilian blood there was soon a lot of dance, rhythm, singing, laughter, and of course drinking. And lunch and supper, too. Jose and I went to a restaurant where two very big Paella pans were prepared for the party, each of them with almost one meter in diameter. The mixed Brazilian and Spanish food was really tasty and the dancing was fun for me, so I stayed the whole afternoon and evening and left with Patricia, her niece Sabrina and Jose after they closed the bar. We went to Murcia and had some frozen yogurt in the center, then we took Sabrina to her home and went to Patricia's at about 1:00am.

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