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| San Fulgencio to Almerimar - 208 miles |
Trying for an early
start, and being unsuccessful, we awoke to a beautiful morning with
the temperature climbing to a pleasant level. Even though we were
moving on today we still had to have our Sunday Breakfast so it was
much later than intended when we'd finally finished clearing up,
repacked the van and seen to the tanks etc. Settle up with the nice
lady then some sad goodbyes until we reconnect on our return to
Spain. We called in to the local fuel station whose price was very
good, the equivalent of £1 per litre, and replenished the tank.
Our only objective
today was to get as many miles under the wheels as was reasonable so
we set TomTom for Almeria, our objective, and let him take us onto
the A7 autovia, which involved a short backtrack. The AP7 would have
been a little more direct but from here it is a full toll road and,
for Spain, quite expensive. We don't do expensive so were very happy
with our route, which took us around the main conurbations and up
into the mountains, resplendent in the achingly blue sky with the odd
topping of white snow still hanging around.
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We paused for lunch at
a service station near Nijar, in one of the Parque Naturelle areas,
and also started checking for a suitable overnight stop. Having made
good time we noticed what looked to be a couple of nice motorhome
stopovers at Almerimar, which is around 35km further on from Almeria
and reachable within our normal time frame, so the satnav was
adjusted to head there.
Not a place we've
visited before, Almeria appears to be a popular bustling (even in
winter) holiday resort and we entered with some trepidation about our
ability to get a spot. Sure enough, despite it being one of the
larger “aires”, it was full to bursting point and we had no
chance, so whilst Terry extricated us from the town Bren scanned for
nearby alternatives, finding a name we had heard before not too far
away. With Nelly (the notebook computer) now in charge, she navigated
us to..... a building site! Looked as though that one is closed then,
but we did pass an area where there appeared to be a number of
motorhomes settled so returned there to find a quiet beach-side
carpark with no prohibition signs (we'd seen a lot in the town) and
although quite full there was more than enough room for us to slot in
amongst the mainly German vans, including yet more of the huge gin
palaces!
Checking our
information further we discovered this was a very recent (like 2
weeks) addition to the Park4Nite computer app so not as yet well
known. As of now, being well away from population centres it would
seem the authorities are perhaps turning a blind eye, especially when
all the official places are full, but we can't help feeling this
won't be here if we come back in a couple of months time, especially
if it is abused which regretably happens with a very small minority.
But nobody has bothered
us up to now, it's all clean and tidy so we ought to be okay for at
least tonight, which is all we need. We have put up our sign, quoting
the Spanish Law that allows us to “park” without hindrance. Just
have to be careful we don't display any ”camping” behaviour which
would get us moved on.
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