LEMON POP FESTIVAL

As part of the Feria de Murcia,there will be the Lemon Pop Festival . This will run the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of September and entry is FREE!

Last year over 25,000 people attended. It is an Indie, pop and underground Festival.

To see who´s playing , what time and where

click here http://www.fiestasdemurcia.es/fiestasdemurcia/listado.aspx?aco=27&xsp=1

FERIA DE MURCIA TROPHY- GOLF COMPETITION

On Hacienda Riquelme on the 5th of September, they will be holding the "Feria de Murcia" golf competition.


This will be a stableford competition by category, with shotgun start at 8.30am.

You can see the 4 categories on the Poster above.

There will be a prize of a Solercia Watch for the closest to the Pin, and also for the longest drive.
There will be an award cermony and cocktails on completio of the competition.
You need to sign up before the 3rd of September, via email or on the phone number on the poster above.

Good Luck!

SERVICES TO YOUR DOOR

This Thread will have a list of services that you can get to your door without even moving! Very useful for yourself or for your renters while they are here.

1. NAILS AND REIKI - TIPS AND TOES - Have Karin come to your house and do your nails or have a Reiki session. http://polarisworldandbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/09/nails-and-reiki.html

2. HOME COOKED MEALS TO YOUR DOOR - COOKIN' SOURCE - Have Bernie and Carole deliver delicious home cooked meals to your door. http://polarisworldandbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/09/cookin-source-meals-delivered-to-your.html

3.

OWNERS

If you are an owner on one of the resorts you should really make sure you are registered on the owners only forums for each resort.

http://www.ltgr.es/ LA TORRE GOLF RESORT

http://www.hrgr.es/ HACIENDA RIQUELME GOLF RESORT

http://www.mmgr.info/ MAR MENOR GOLF RESORT

http://www.evgr.org/ EL VALLE GOLF RESORT

These are important sources of keeping up to date with owners, whats happening on the resorts and voicing your opinion.

IMPORTANT INFO RIGHT NOW ON LA TORRE GOLF RESORT WEBPAGE http://www.ltgr.es/

IF YOU ARE A LA TORRE OWNER PLEASE LOG ON NOW, AND CAST YOUR VOTE.

I will add these links to the links column for future reference.

FERIA - MURCIA

This is a massive event in Murcia running from the 2nd of September to the 14th of September. With absolutely tons going on and well worth a visit or two!

1) The Feria - (Fun fair) - This starts on the 2nd and will run through to the 15th of September, It is being held at the "Recinto de la Fica" with has recently been enlarged to 46.000 m2 !

On the 7th of September it is "The day of the Child" so all the fairground attractions will be at a reduced price.

2) Festival Internacional de Folklore en el Mediterraneo - This runs from the 6th to the 10th of September in various locations and squares around the city. With exhibitions, performances, cinema and music. Click the foto below to go to the events page of what and where its being held.
3) Huertos del Malecon - Runs from the 2nd to the 13th of September. The Botanical garden of Malecon - turns into a place where the "huertanos" set up camp, and throughout this time, you can experience superb food, musical performances, exhibitions.
On the 12th of September its "Murcia Day" and you will be able to experience typical murcian food for free, there will be a mass, a parade with giants and bigheaded people?, childrens workshops and much more. This kicks of at 9.30am and runs through into the night.
Throughout the rest of the week, it starts at 7pm and Free muscial performances are on at 10pm. To see the full programme (in Spanish) click the foto of the lady in the big skirt.

Tagged on to this one is the "Food and wine tasting event" This has a cost of 8 euros to enter, and then once inside there are lots of different stands offering samples of their produce, mostly free but sometimes at a small cost. This is a great way to find new things to eat and drink. The Bodegas of Jumilla (12 in total) Bullas (2) and Yecla will be particiapting, alongside tapas, cheeses, meats and icecreams!
For more info and pictures of our trip to the exhibition click here
http://polarisworldandbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/09/feria-de-murcia-wine-and-tapas.html

4) Moros y Cristianos -(Moors and Christians) 5th to 14th September. This will take place on the camping ground of the Botanical garden, the same as the above events.
5th September - midday they will parade and hand out programmes to the festivities.
6th September - at 8pm, they will parade around Plaza Santo Domingo. Then at 10pm they will open the campment area and medieval market situated at the botanical garden.
7th September - from 6pm to 9pm. At the botanical garden there will be a childrens funfair and archery, both of these will be free.
8th September - from 6pm to 9pm. At the Botanical Garden there will be the childrens funfair, archery and a childrens painting competition. All free. At midnight there will be chocolate and donuts!
9th September . At 7.30pm there will be a big children's party and the prizes for the drawing competition will be handed out. And at Midnight there will be a Party for the older ones. All Free.
11th September- at 11am there will be a parade throughout the city and again at 9pm
12th September - At miday there will be a childrens parade
There is more going on but have just picked out the most interesting, to see the full programme in Spanish click the foto below.
5) The Feria of the Bull. 6th to the 18th of September, there will be various bullfights held. You can see the programme by clicking the picture below.

A programme of what bullfights are on is below

All will be held at the bullring in Murcia and tickets can be bought via internet
http://www.plazatorosmurcia.com/

So all in all absolutely tons to do, I will add everything onto the events calender so you can see by the day, whats going on.
Below is a google map with all the locations on.
The arrow is on where I pressume the Feria is, and then just to the right of the A30 road you can see the Jardin Botanico (where most of the above events are being held.)

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MOTORBIKE CONGREGATION

On Sunday 29th of August there will be a congregation of Motorbikes down in Lo Pagan on the beachfront.



This Starts at 9.30am and will have Gogo´s, sandwiches, beer, music,draws and that machine that you show your strength on (can not for the life of me remember the name of this machine)

A little livlier way to spend a sunday?

CoverTime and Yaniella Brooks

CoverTime and Yaniella Brooks are two great bands which play the Polaris circuit, if you have not seen them then you should.

Covertime will be playing Bamboo at La Torre Golf Resort on Friday 27th August at Bamboo


And also on Saturday 28th Augustat Sandalo in El Valle Golf Resort






Yaniella will be playing Mombassa Cafe on Thursday 26th The bouleverd Mar Menor Golf Resort.


She will also be playing at La Torre Golf on Saturday 28th August


So go out and enjoy :)

TAPAS TRAIL UPDATE

Well, we went down on Sunday to try the Tapas Trail (in the interests of keeping you informed of course!) And what a superb idea, loved it. Unfortunatly it was Sunday and some of the bars were closed. See my blog earlier for more info running from 20th August to 29th August, alongside the Audi Med Cup Regatta.
http://polarisworldandbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/08/audi-med-cup-and-tapas-route.html
You can print off the trail below by clicking one of the pics which will take you to the page.



As you can see each bar and tapa is numbered and this correlates to the map. Once you go into the first bar, you can pick up a proper smaller version.

We started at Number 18 - El Barril del Tapeo. And I must say this was my favourite, due to the food, ambience, and decor.

Located just down from the roman ampitheatre, this is a picture taken from the door to the ampitheatre (above)
A Place I would have never have found, had I not gone on the trail.
Busy with local people and service was great. The bar was laden with Tapas.
An amazing looking coffee machine!
These were the best Tapas we had, aubergine slices which were sandwiched with a tuna mayo filling and gratine on top! And a couple of beers to wash it down! all for 5 euros (2.50 each! I couldn´t reccomend this place highly enough. And will go back again and again.

Our next stop was number 16 which is "La Vieja Taberna"

Where we had a Meat and vegetable croquette on top of a carrot puree with cherry toms.

We did gobble this one down too quickly that I had forgotten to foto it! So asked lady next door and she kindly held hers up to foto!

Just along from this was the number 17 - restaurante Casino. But we decided not to have one in here, as needed a walk first.

So we continued on and ended up in Restaurante La Marquesita, which was just simply gorgeous,
Here we had a cannelloni filled with duck confit and mushrooms in an almost sweet and sour sauce.

This was a restuarant and not a tapas place, but very very nice and quaint, the food coming out to the diners looked sublime and extremely well presented. I will definatly go back and try their restaurant menu next time I am in Cartagena, service was great and friendly.

We continued on, but by now were actually not that hungry, so spent a while walking the streets staring upwards at Cartagena bulidings because they are incredible
Churches and the most fascinating buildings!
We walked by number 4 "Cerveceria Azafran" which unfortunatly was closed on a sunday.

Other wise I reckon we could have been tempted into another! As each participating place has a Poster in the door with the Tapa on it and check this one out!

Yummy looking or what!

I Have also been reccomended EL PINCHO DEL CASTILLO (number 34) and BARRIO DE SAN ROQUE (number 6) but unfortunatly both were closed on Sunday. So I will have to go back and try them.

This trail runs alongside the Audi Med Cup Regatta where there are also loads of concerts, parades, kids entertainment on, I have added pictures of the Village area to the Earlier blog post

http://polarisworldandbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/08/audi-med-cup-and-tapas-route.html

MEXICAN NIGHT!

There will be a Mexican themed night at the Woodhouse in La Torre Golf Resort tommorrow Tuesday 24th August at 8.30pm, the same as what was held on 27th of July.


Booking is advisable.

This will feature Mexican entertainment, a prize for the best Sombrero (hat)

There will be a Mariachi band singing around the tables. For any of you who have not heard Mariachis. This Youtube video is superb " El Mariachi Loco" (the crazy mariachi)and quite amusing!


Margarita Cocktails will be 3 euros!
Starts at 8.30pm

Enjoy

BLOG UPDATE

I have now added a "Subscribe to Polaris World and Beyond by Email" link on the Blog. So that you can receive my posts into your inbox. It will only send you new posts so you will need to keep checking the links I keep updating.

Also if any of you have any reccomendations, please send them to me and I will endevour to add them to the blog. Its all about us sharing information and making a onestop page of information. If you have any pictures you have taken of these reccomendations, these would be appreciated too.

sam@murciagolfproperties.co.uk

If you have attended any of the events I have posted and got some pictures, please send them on so that I can add them to the blogs, or if you have enjoyed one of the events please post a comment below the post.

I would like to point out that I do not receive anything from the places I reccomend, or from the links on the webpage, nor from MurciaGolfProperties. This webpage is a labour of love which I do in my spare time, and is done purely to spread the word of events on and things to do and great places to eat.

Thankyou for reading my blog and keep spreading the word.

FLAMENCO AT BAMBOO UPDATE

Well a good night was had by all on Thursday night. I managed to have a good catch up with a couple who have been reading my blog and after exchanging a few emails, it turns out they own a property 20 steps from my house! Good music, singing, atmosfere and company and a glass of vino :) HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FOR NEXT WEEK!

I went down to see the Flamenco singers which will be performing in the Festival Internacional de Cante Flamenco in Roldan next week.
It was a full house with I would say 70% Spanish people there.

They had set up lots of rustic chairs for everyone to sit and watch.



The guy clapping was the singer and yes could he sing, with a huge grin even though it did sound like he was in pain (but very good), then there was the guitarist who was superb and the drummer used the box he was sitting on!

The girl got up and danced with passion.

The little kids were enthralled by her.

Quick costume change AKA Michael Jackson styley

And a standing Ovation at the end :)
They also had a promotion on where if you ordered one of the HAVANA 7 cocktails you got a free massage!

Well done Polaris for a great night !

FIESTAS PATRONALES DE RODA

The Village of Roda, which is located next to Roda Golf and Beach Resort, is holding its yearly fiestas this week.


Starting today 21st August and ending on the 29th of August.




A week of dancing, verbenas, sports, food, childrens activities and finishing off with fireworks. So head down there and have fun


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FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CANTE FLAMENCO

The Festival Internacional de Cante Flamenco starts on Monday the 23rd of August and runs nightly until the 29th of August.

In lo Ferro (which is nextdoor to Roldan and la Torre Golf Resort)



Each night it starts at 10pm and costs 10 euros. Tickets can be bought in advance at the festivals office between 5pm and 9pm. This is located on Murillo Street number 2
Below you Can see a street Map of Roldan and Lo Ferro, The Festival is located in Square E3 on the grid, and you can also see Murillo street right next to it.



Below you can see the programme, with who is playing/singing and who is dancing.





On Sunday 29th it looks like the event will be Free, as there is no cost on it, and it starts at 8pm.

AUDI MED CUP AND TAPAS ROUTE

The Audi Med Cup 2010 will be held in Cartagena from the 24th August to the 29th of August. Click foto below to go to Audi Med Cup homepage.

The "Public Village" will open though on Satuday 21st through till Sunday 29th and this is open to everyone from midday to 10pm, they will have an intense programme of activities, concerts, competitions, exhibitions, parades, carthagians and roman spectacles and things for the little ones to do.

Saturday 21. Children´s activities. Parades and Gala carnaval.

Sunday 22. Children´s Activities . International Festival of improvised music and poetry.

Monday 23. Regional Championship of the Optimist teams. Children´s activities. piragua. Exhibitions of rythmic Gymnastics, table tennis and Taekwondo.

Tuesday 24. Children´s activities and Roman spectacle.

Wednesday 25. Regional Championship of the Optimist teams. Children´s activities. Prize giving. Magic show

Thursday 26. Children´s activities, Jazz Concert.

Friday 27. Children´s activities. Running competition(La Milla de los Pisionarios) Cuban party.

Saturday 28. Children´s activities. swimming across the port. Classic motorbike congregation. rock Concert.

Sunday 29. Children´s activities. Audi med cup prize giving. Acrobatic exhibition.

Some pictures we took while down on Sunday 21st
A Huge inflatable area, all free for kids and supervised.
A Funzone, which had simulators
And things like learning how to tie knots!

There was also obviously many an Audi parked around!



There will also be a "Tapas Route" throughout Cartagena, lots of bars and restaurants are involved and each one will be preparing a special Tapa. So the idea is that you walk the route and have a different Tapa and drink in each bar. The cost in every bar will be 2.50 euros for a tapa and a drink.

20th - 29th August

Rules Below.



You can pick up the route and a passport with details of each tapa and restaurant, in any of the bars participating, or at the tourist office.
Also if you go on their webpage http://www.rutadelatapadecartagena.es/ you can download the guide and see pictures of all the tapas in each restaurant,bar, bodega. Below are a few pictures to entice you!




This is a really fun idea which gets you to taste tapas the way you should.

Enjoy.