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| Segorbe to Tavernes - 90 miles (but a lot of messing about) |
Another bright sunny
day, cool at first but warming up to be most comfortable. Dog
walkies, breakfast and service the van – we always do whenever
there is an opportunity, especially when we don't know where we'll
end up!
Today we're going to
try to complete the two items on our must-do list, that is buy an
ACSI card and wash Bertie! With the various caravan shops programmed
into Nellie Bren navigated us to the first, which unsurprisingly we
couldn't find – the address was a bit hit and miss though. Never
mind, round the outskirts of Valencia with just a couple of wrong
turns easily corrected and off into the back of beyond. And this time
it was exactly where it was supposed to be and, more importantly,
they had a stock of ACSI books! In Spanish we'll admit but the icons
are universal and we'll keep the legend from the old book to refer to
as necessary.
Not having made any
decisions, we had just thought to drive south along the coast and see
where we ended up. So back onto the autovia, to clear Valencia, and
as it was lunchtime dropped off into the first service area, which
just so happened to have a jet wash big enough to take Bertie. After
€5 of washing, he was looking much better, not perfect but we can
finish off with a damp microfibre cloth later. We also took the
opportunity of refuelling before parking up for lunch. Mission
accomplished!
With the sun still
shining bright and warm we headed for the coast road with no
particular destination in mind; this is how we usually operate,
stopping tom check at around 4.00 pm if we haven't already found somewhere.
This time Bren spotted a Campercontact flag on Nellie that didn't
appear in any of our literature and as it seemed to be right on the
coast we thought we'd have a look. Incidentally Campercontact is an
excellent collection of parking areas for motorhomes, be they parking
places, aires or full campsites. In this case the place was a
commercial aire, a sort of halfway house between an aire and a
campsite, usually with full facilities but not always in the best of
locations, situated on the edge of Tavernes de la Validigna and next
to the beach.
Pretty full with a
variety of nationalities, the manageress told us off for arriving at
lunchtime (it was 3.20 pm, well suppose that's lunchtime!) but
pointed us into a pitch and told us to come to the office later with
our passports. Had an explore, a cuppa then booked in - €8 per
night is pretty good although there was no electricity (or swimming
pool, but that's pushing it a bit........) before taking Jamie onto
the beach for an hours run and play in the sea, which was quite
rough. Have to say Tavernes is not the most attractive of places; the
town centre looked fine as we came through but the beach is
overshadowed (quite literally) by rows of somewhat shabby apartment
blocks, although it is sandy and clean.
Back to Bertie for a
snooze then tea and yet another quiet evening of nothing much. We're
thinking of stopping off in Benidorm for a few days at a site (ACSI
so discounted – hooray) where we know there is a biggish group of
Funsters in residence. However we also know it's a popular place so
may be out of luck, but have an alternative plan in mind.
Sorry, no photos today.
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