We woke to a beautiful, cloudless day. After breakfast we walked the 1km or so into Calpe and came upon the market, more like a carboot sale. It held virtually no interest for us whatsoever. Nevertheless we had a good look around, and as predicted came away with nothing. Moving on we went into the town. Ever since we were in St.Tropez we have been looking for a certain type of beach mat that all of the French people had but have been unable to find the one. we started our search full of optimism that here in the metropolis and centre of sunbathing we would surely find what we were looking for which is a double sized folding beach mat. It folds in on itself into a handy carry-bag. We found rafia mats, foil covered rafia mats, blue stripy foam mats and lilos but alas no smart beach mat.
We walked to the beach and along the front for about half a km admiring the super views and glorious sea and beaches. What a fantastic hot and beautiful day. Bereft of our mat we sat on the wall looking out to sea and ate lunch from our Bento boxes.
We really liked Calpe, it has a very pleasant view, glorious weather and the town is not bad. You could do a lot worse than spend a winter here.
Walking back we looked in some of the estate agent windows and as per the Home or Away property programmes on day time TV property prices have been seriously reduced. We saw one villa which had started at €899.000 and eventually sold at €450.000. Mind you that's still half a million with taxes etc.
By 2pm we were back at the campsite having stopped off at Lidl to make a few purchases. As it was such a lovely day we thought we would take the final opportunity before Malaga to do some washing. The rest of the day we sunbathed, relaxed, drank beer and enjoyed each others company. Moving on to Cotes du Rhone by the end of the afternoon. (€6 for 3L - it gives you a hell of a headache but for €6 what do you expect?). Once we have drained this box dry (tonight) we are going to by a flagon of the concierge's local red wine which comes in a 3L plastic bottle, costs €4 and doubles up as antifreeze.
We have been told by our neighbour that the weather may change tomorrow so we are not sure if we will stay or move on. If it's nice we will stay and if it looks like cloudy we will move on. We did try to get another Dongle today but it would appear that there are compatibility problems with MapBook Pro Mountain Lion and the software on the dongle's. It looks like you need to download a driver to use it. Not much use if you are not on the internet...? So we will have to wait till we get to a McDonalds to do any more blogging.
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