Earlyish start today as we're moving on. A bit grey with a high overcast and still quite cool – but on reading of 2ins of snow at home..........
After breakfast the usual final packing away, refill water tanks, empty loo etc etc then pay our dues (got a free day, nice!) and on our way. First order of the day is to refill the larder and we recalled a big supermarket a few miles south on the coastal road so around half an hour later pulled into a big Carrefour at Cullera. We noticed that although the Carrefour fuel station was closed another across the road was selling diesel at €1.57 litre – absolute shame we were almost full already!
Hour and a half later and €90 lighter we'd restocked with goodies and decided to stick to the coastal road heading south and see what we fancied. Paralleling the AP7 it appears this is no longer a toll road so if you want to get somewhere quickly that option is there, but we were in no rush. Lunch-time and we started looking for somewhere suitable to stop, making one aborted effort when we realised we'd tried that place before with no luck, but after passing through lots of small towns we spotted somewhere that had shown up in our Campercontact app as a good stopover so quickly turned around (convenient roundabout!) and pulled in.
This was a large parking area, right on a lovely sandy beach behind a restaurant, which was open at the time, and at 1.45pm was already pretty full so we found a spot and settled down to lunch. But Bren was not feeling too good, we think she may have caught a dose of that flu-like bug, so decided we'd stay here overnight and repositioned ourselves to get more level and facing into the fresh breeze.
The restaurant appeared to close after lunch and the parking quickly filled up but everyone had allowed space between each other so it was not crowded; we later counted 30 vans of all shapes, sizes and nationalities. Our app, and the beach information board, said overnight parking was not allowed but then comments went on to confirm the local police tolerated one night stops before moving you on. At this time of year we don't think it'll be a problem but in the holiday season we expect it will be restricted, mainly due to the superb beach we're parked alongside.
Although it was sunny the breeze persuaded us to remain indoors so Bren crashed out until teatime, Jamie curled up on a seat and Terry read a book! Well we are on holiday!
It's now 9.30pm and we still hear vans driving into the area then departing – we all love an optimist but these folk are really pushing their luck. We've found that if you aren't parked up by about 3.30pm your choices are drastically limited, although that said there does appear to be a lot more camperstop sites opening, reasonably priced with proper facilities so we'll be looking at more of those.
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