(Delayed posting because I only just noticed that I forgot to hit 'publish' on Friday when I wrote it.)
Where's Bertie? He's at Xeraco Campers where it's costing €17* per night, including 6A electricity, and all usual campsite facilities (including a swimming pool, should we want a cold plunge).
Weather: wall-to-wall sunshine and warm (17 degrees)
It's in some ways a shame that we'd booked this campsite, as last night's car park was so quiet and nice that we could easily have spent a couple or three days there. That said, having done so many repetitions of the seafront promenades of Farnals and Puçol, it was perhaps time to move on.
Our first move was only 2km down the road, to a Carrefour Hypermarche, where we went in armed with a short list of items, mainly things that we'd forgotten to bring with us. We came out with two of them, but having walked some significant distance. Those Hypermarches are large stores, and trying to find a pack of food-packaging-closure-clips was akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
The next stop should have been another 4k away, except the Lidl there turned out to be closed for a rebuild. We found another one half way to our destination. Not so much walking was involved there; one of the reasons I like Lidl is that they're small, compact and generally laid out similarly to each other, so no matter what country we're in, I can find stuff without too much difficulty.
It was 1pm by the time we arrived here at Xeraco Campers, and we were ready to eat a scabby dog. With Bertie plugged in and a drinking water container filled (we have both electricity and water on our pitch, which is a bonus), lunch was had, before we headed out for a little look around Platja de Xeraco (the camper park is between Platja and the town of Xeraco, but nearer to the former).
Huge beach
Goes on for some distance in the other direction too.
Unsurprisingly Platja de Xeraco is, like most beachside settlements we visit, deserted at this time of year, with few houses and flats showing signs of being inhabited and almost all businesses closed. This place seems to be more closed than most, with a Spar supermarket being the only thing we found to be open. So, it's a good job we're not here with cultural ambitions! Will six nights prove to be too long a booking? Only time will tell.
(*A pitch without electricity is €12.50, so it would have been more economical for us to go without power, as we won't get good value from the extra expense. But there's some (perhaps not entirely logical) thought that says that there's no point in paying for an unpowered pitch when we could park in a car park for free. So that led us to the uneconomical (for us) option of a 'standard' pitch. It is nice, however, to be sitting here with all the lights on all evening, and whilst it's only a 6A electric supply, we can run our electric kettle, hotplate and even the fan heater on low (provided we remember not to use more than one of those things at once), so it will save gas.)
Weather: wall-to-wall sunshine and warm (17 degrees)
It's in some ways a shame that we'd booked this campsite, as last night's car park was so quiet and nice that we could easily have spent a couple or three days there. That said, having done so many repetitions of the seafront promenades of Farnals and Puçol, it was perhaps time to move on.
Our first move was only 2km down the road, to a Carrefour Hypermarche, where we went in armed with a short list of items, mainly things that we'd forgotten to bring with us. We came out with two of them, but having walked some significant distance. Those Hypermarches are large stores, and trying to find a pack of food-packaging-closure-clips was akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
The next stop should have been another 4k away, except the Lidl there turned out to be closed for a rebuild. We found another one half way to our destination. Not so much walking was involved there; one of the reasons I like Lidl is that they're small, compact and generally laid out similarly to each other, so no matter what country we're in, I can find stuff without too much difficulty.
It was 1pm by the time we arrived here at Xeraco Campers, and we were ready to eat a scabby dog. With Bertie plugged in and a drinking water container filled (we have both electricity and water on our pitch, which is a bonus), lunch was had, before we headed out for a little look around Platja de Xeraco (the camper park is between Platja and the town of Xeraco, but nearer to the former).
Unsurprisingly Platja de Xeraco is, like most beachside settlements we visit, deserted at this time of year, with few houses and flats showing signs of being inhabited and almost all businesses closed. This place seems to be more closed than most, with a Spar supermarket being the only thing we found to be open. So, it's a good job we're not here with cultural ambitions! Will six nights prove to be too long a booking? Only time will tell.
(*A pitch without electricity is €12.50, so it would have been more economical for us to go without power, as we won't get good value from the extra expense. But there's some (perhaps not entirely logical) thought that says that there's no point in paying for an unpowered pitch when we could park in a car park for free. So that led us to the uneconomical (for us) option of a 'standard' pitch. It is nice, however, to be sitting here with all the lights on all evening, and whilst it's only a 6A electric supply, we can run our electric kettle, hotplate and even the fan heater on low (provided we remember not to use more than one of those things at once), so it will save gas.)
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