26 – 31 January 2018 Camping Calpe-Mar

26 – 31 January 2018 Camping Calpe-Mar

Calpe Main street
Calpe Main street

Went into Benidorm by bus and train with Linda and Ray. Had coffee and toast and a short walkabout.

Walk

Still running around and cycling and walking all over Calpe. Took Ray on a long walk into the hills – 3 hours.

Fawlty Towers ?
Fawlty Towers ?

Been enjoying lovely weather with clear skies but typical this evening, the 31st, the night of the blood moon clouds appear.

Calpe-Aparthotel

22 -23 January Camping Collvert Valencia

22 -23 January Camping Collvert Valencia

Fallas Museum (click for larger image)
Fallas Museum (click for larger image)

Had a couple of good days in Valencia first day bus  into town for a look around, festival  day so a parade on and took a good photo of two horses with their own personal poopa scooper behind just waiting.

Parade Valencia (click for larger image)
Parade Valencia (click for larger image)

Had a coffee then walked down to the Fallas museum it was good well worth a visit.

Fallas Museum
Fallas Museum

Day 2 a good cycle up into Valencia coffee then back for lunch then had a cycle down into El Saler.

20 -21 January 2018 Benicassim

20 -21 January 2018 Benicassim

Parade2

Our stay here is drawing to a close and we move on once again it has been a lot different this time with being here later and much more for us to see. We managed a good run on the beach in 20 C temp. Last night at 1700 it was 12 C and by 2000 it was 18 C, so a warm night.

Parade

Parade3

15 – 17 January 2018 Benicassim

– 17  January 2018 Benicassim

Fire

Still running and cycling all over the place with a cycle down to Castellon again. The middle of January is the start of the San Antonia Festival with last night the 16th being bonfires day. The whole of the main street and many of the side streets full of fires for their barbecues. We could hear people until the early hours of the morning.

San-Antonia
San-Antonia

8.00 am today we were woken to 20 minutes of extremely loud firecrackers. After a bit of sun bathing we went into the town to watch the religious procession.

San-Antonia

San-Antonia

We are looking forward to tomorrow because of the Encierro (bulls run), and on Friday Paella Day followed by lots more bull running all the way up to Sunday.

San-Antonia
San-Antonia

12 -14 January 2018 Benicassim

12 -14  January 2018 Benicassim

Oops! another lovely sunset
Oops! another lovely sunset

Still running and cycling our way around in Benicassim. Up to Oropesa with friends on our bikes for a look around and coffee.

cycle  to Oropessa
cycle to Oropessa

Good walkabout in the scrub in the hills and the Benicassim 10k on today.

Benicassim 10k
Benicassim 10k