This site, more
properly called a camperpark, is mostly used by long-term motorhomers
and there is little turnover – we were lucky to get a pitch for a
couple of days. As such it has it's own little community, which the
site owner has generally sorted into nationalities although there is
some “bleedover”. So there is a big contingent of Germans, a
goodly number of Scandinavians, a few Netherlanders and a handful of
Brits, all getting on together very well and being equally friendly
to us short term stopovers.
Having just a couple of
days we didn't venture far but instead enjoyed the company of our
friends. There are a number of retail establishments around such as
Iceland, who stock mostly UK brands, plus Lidl, Aldi and Mercadonna,
all of which got a visit during our stay. There is also the
ubiquitous Chinese supermarket; these are generally a huge glorified
cash and carry stocking Chinese versions of just about anything you
can think of (but not food) and you find them all over Spain in the
popular tourist areas. Frankly the stock is tat but you can pick up
the odd useful item, although don't buy a watch..........!
On Saturday there is
quite a big local market which occupies the streets around the
camperpark offering the usual fare. We did notice however that it was
relatively poorly attended, the dull threatening weather perhaps
having something to do with it. It never did actually rain and indeed
we did manage to sit out in the sun for a couple of hours, but the
breeze was cool enough to encourage us to take to the shelter of a
nice warm motorhome.
Whilst we enjoyed our
stay, the lack of local places of interest wouldn't have encouraged
us to remain for a longer term – many of the “residents” of
course had alternative transport so were in a better position to take
days out. There is a regular bus service but it didn't appear to be
too reliable, the drivers occasionally “missing out” the local
stops. However it suits many so we won't criticise something that is
very well suited to motorhomers generally.
But time marches on and
we've offered to take a small group of Funsters across to Morocco
next week so regretfully we have to leave our friends and move on.
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