Walked Jamie early then breakfast followed by a chat with D & J. Intention is for them to return to the casa and we'll follow along before leaving them at the Tebar hotel to continue our holiday. A lot of messing about before we finally got on the road at 11.50, far later than we really wanted, but hey ho, we don't need to be anywhere soon.
With TomTom in charge we took a cross-country route back to the A7 heading for Murcia then Almeira, initially quite a busy road again. However we must have missed a turn or something because we found ourselves in serious roadworks, which we had not encountered northbound, going in circles before finally stopping and asking a policeman. Despite him only speaking Spanish we deduced which way to go and finally regained the A7 - Derek later told us he tried to warn us but we missed that.
So eventually we arrived in Lorca and refuelled at the Plenoil there (£1.13pl) before the quick run towards Aguilas. We stopped at the hotel as planned, said our farewells and pushed on, first to Aguilas where we paused for a very late lunch, then on to Anibels, the motorhome service station, where we emptied the waste and refilled with water, all for the princely sum of €3 - there ought to be more of these places!
It now being much later than we'd hoped we decided to return to Palomares and the wild camping area so set off, although again something went wrong with the directions. We came up behind a funeral cortege just before a turning to Palomares, which we took, but then so did the funeral and we were stuck behind them at 30kph all the way to the cemetery - in Palomares!
However we were now totally lost with no road signs, just small agricultural farm roads in every direction. Hoping for the best we headed generally tiowards the sea and unexpectedly came out right opposite the wild camping area we stayed at a few nights ago! We returned to the spot we had occupied, noting that our "neighbours" were still there and gratefully anchored down for the night.
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