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| El Catllar to Peniscola - 98 miles |
Again not as cold
overnight and the morning was bright and sunny. A fairly standard
start as we are wanting to be on our way but are actually in no rush
now we have reached our objective i.e. the Mediterranean coast.
Breakfast then service the van – which we always do if there are
facilities available as we generally don't know where we're going to
be next – incurring the wrath of a local who seemed to object when
we emptied the toilet into the (correct) receptacle whilst he was
filling water bottles (incorrectly) at the adjacent tap. Mind it did
whiff a bit and he did start calling us names, some of which sounded
a bit rude! Just ignored him, which seemed to make him worse! Tough.
Never mind, we finished
and got back onto the road, initially going the wrong way but quickly
sorting that out, with our aims this morning to do some shopping,
refill the gas bottles and maybe refuel at the same time. In
Tarragona the latter two were easily accomplished at one Repsol
station but we had a few attempts at finding supermarkets before we
pulled onto a Mercadonna, one of the better places we've found in
Spain. There was actually an Aldi next to it too.
A trolley full later we
decided to have an early lunch before heading south along the coast.
With no real destination in mind we settled on Benicarlo and enjoyed
a nice hours run on the empty A7/N340 main road, which more or less
runs alongside the AP7. The AutoPista is supposed to be a toll road
but we've learned that the tolls are being removed on many AP's in
Spain and judging by the amount of traffic on it, this section may
well now be toll-free. Whatever, we're in no rush and soon turned off
at the junction for Peniscola, headed for an apparently new ACSI
campsite, advertised to be in Benicarlo.
It isn't – in
Benicarlo that is – and although we did in fact call in to have a
look it definitely wasn't to our taste even if (and probably why) it
was in the cheapest ACSI bracket. So instead we made our way to the
more expensive site, which we've used several times, at El Eden in
Peniscola itself. Made to feel very welcome again, we found a
suitable pitch on this almost full campsite and settled in. The
majority of our neighbours were German, which in itself is a good
indicator of the quality – Germans only go for the best in
everything – although we did park on the next pitch to a Brit
caravan.
We've booked for four
nights here with a view to settling down after all the travel and
catch up with the laundry etc. Bren's cold is getting better but we'd
like to visit a pharmacy to top up on the medications she's been
getting through. At least it feels a lot warmer here and the forecast
still seems settled. The only fly in the oitment is that there seems
to be some serious demolition work going on closeby with a pneumatic
hammer going right up until dusk – hope that's going to stop.
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