Earlyish start today as we're moving on and awoke to a cloudy grey and cold morning, but still dry... So breakfast, finish packing away, then round to the service point to attend to water etc. Then it started to rain! First port of call this morning is a supermercado so having settled the bill we headed down the road and quickly found a Mercadona at Vera. Then with cupboards restocked we continued our wanderings along the coast.
The weather forecast suggested it would be better once we were past Almeria so for a change used the nearby A7 autovia to cover some miles quickly and thus give us more time later to find a nice overnight spot. We've found it best to be parked up before 4.00pm as sites etc. start to fill up by then. As promised we cleared the clouds and once again were travelling in lovely bright sunshine.
Approaching and past Almeria we were in plastic greenhouse country, every square foot of space covered with acres of polythene structures dedicated to growing, well, actually no idea but we suspect soft fruits, tomatoes, peppers, salads etc for the world market. After the city we dropped back to the coast and found a rather nice but almost deserted beach car park at Adra where we joined another Brit motorhome and stopped for lunch and to exercise Jamie on a rather grotty, to be honest, beach. Lots of tourist apartments around though and beach furniture suggested it was popular and probably cleaner in the right season.
Still very windy, however, but our weather app suggested we'd get some protection a little further along the coast past Motril so appetites sated, we rejoined the A7 for another 45 minutes then back onto the coast road approaching Almunecar, down a very steep and winding road, carefully watching a motorcyclist behind us who seemed to want a tow!
Paused at the bottom to check our apps and Campercontact showed us a new place about 3km away which looked promising so thought we'd at least have a look. It is situated just behind the town and is actually a bit of a pig to get to, we missed turns three times before approaching over a very steep hill, through some back streets and up another steep hill. But it was worth it as we found a very nice level spot with friendly staff, some excellent views over the town, bay and mountains beyond and shelter from the thankfully lighter winds. And they'd got a few spaces left so we chose a nice one and settled in. Although just a camperstop, which has only been open for 3 months, it has all we need for a night or two although we're only planning on staying tonight.
It's good to see all these new camperstops opening up – three years ago finding one such as this was a bit hit and miss but now entrepreneurs are realising there is a demand for basic services at less than campsite prices. Yes, there are still plenty of wildcamping spots where overnight parking is tolerated in low season – let's face it local police don't want dozens of motorhomes wandering around and as long as there are no complaints generally leave them alone, although we are told that they still patrol these areas. Hopefully this situation will continue but from our experiences elsewhere this won't be forever.
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