One Perfect Day

Elaine was busy last night finishing off her latest creation, the Pro Hart Dragonfly!

We left the campsite and headed to Scallops for the cheapo 2.95 Euro breakfast, and very nice it was too ...

We then walked around Javea, and what a lovely town it is - and absolutely full of poms ...

... it seems that more of the 'upper crust' poms hang out here, so we fitted in well!! 

The villas on the hill behind the port are rather expensive to say the least ...

The fishermen were sorting out their nets.  Elaine was most distressed because there were lots of little fishes stuck in them! 

We then drove just outside the port where we parked up on the beach, sunbathed swam and read! 

After too much relaxing we went for a little drive up the hills and what a view they have up there ... 

Tonight we parked up with a few other motorhomes a on a bit of waste ground a couple of streets back from Arenal Beach, so much nicer than a site ...

As there are so many poms here there are also a lot of Indian restaurants, Indian being our favourite food we sampled one just up the road, it was really good.

We really enjoyed today.  Javea is a fab place and is a very desirable place to live.

Other exciting news today ... thanks to Elaine's very clever brother, Trevor we now have 2 of the PCs working again, all sorted out by his clever diagnoses and relaying the fixes to us by email.  Unfortunately the camera is still cactus but I have found a camera shop near Benidorm, so we will stop by there the next days and buy another Lumix.  I did manage to take pics today but it is such a faff and if you look at the pics they look like there is a dead fly on the lens ... this is a result of me pulling the camera apart and rebuilding it in less than ideal conditions!

Another great thing we found today is a brilliant radio station that plays great music and has English presenters.  Spanish and French radio are truly crap! 

On To Javea

I forgot to put this pick in yesterday's post, and yes, he does rock!

We left Benicassim today after our weeklong stay.  Our first stop was just down the road at Lidl for a food top up -  it is very popular with the motorhoming fraternity ...

As we drove south we spotted our first bull on the hill ...

We drove right through the centre of Valencia which was fun with its seven lane roundabouts!

The road on the pic below was a couple of ks long, but all the traffic lights change at exactly the same time and there is a set every 50 metres or so!  It is quite bewildering at first sight !

South of Valencia the road passes through the orange groves where, every couple of hundred metres, there are ladies of the night / day sitting on stools touting for business.  I really don't know where they do the business?  It's very strange and is the only place in Spain we have seen them 'touting' along a major highway ...

Our destination today was Javea.  We checked into a cheap and cheerful site then I took the boys for a walk down to the beach.  The weather was decidedly dodgy with rain and thunder about, still quite warm though ...

And here we are ...

We are level with Ibiza but the cost to take the van across there is extortionate!

Tomorrow we will explore a bit more, come rain or shine!

Javea

Last night's parking spot in Moraira ...

There was a big 'Moors and Christians' fiesta going on last night in Moraira - in fact it goes on till next Sunday.

There were street markets ...

Food stalls, bars, bands, fireworks, cannons going off, all very exciting stuff.  

The singing and dancing went on till just after 03.00 am!

I squeezed in the blog between activities whilst having a beer at the beach bar ... 

As we left this morning a huge classic car procession was rolling into town.  We caught a couple of the tail enders going past and they just happened to be a couple of my all time favourites - a Rover P5 being followed by a Citroen DS ... 

It was a short drive to Javea, which is yet another lovely spot on the Costa Blanca ... 

The usual prom ... 

This area has been our favourite part of Spain so far ... 

Some fantastic looking villas overlook the bay ... 

Right next to the harbour is a concrete church, which was built in 1967 ... 

Inside the roof looks like the underneath of a wooden boat hull ... 

We then decided to find somewhere to moor for the night, we found a nice little site just outside the town, very quiet indeed ...

It also has a very nice pool which we spent a couple of hours relaxing by this arvo ...

Then it was time for the evening walk down to the beach with the doggies, which is only about a kilometre away from the site.

The boys made friends with some locals ... 

Nice views across to Javea ... 

It would have been rude not to have a drink at a beach bar ... 

We passed this nice little house for sale on the way back to the site.  It was only one street back from the beach and it was on sale for 200,000 Euros which seems a good price considering the area. ... 

Finally the sun sets over Montgo ... 

It is such a lovely area so we will stay here for a couple of days.