Our New Life: Calpe

After our traumatic experience at the beginning of our journey last week, the rest of our journey from Benicassim to Calpe proceeded without a hitch.

We travelled through some lovely scenery over mountains and through them as well

The first sight of Calpe with its famous rock

We were in Calpe for just over a week and the campsite, Camping CalpeMar, we were staying on was almost in the centre of town and just 10 minutes from the beach. The campsite was fairly small, the pitches all surrounded with hedges and there was a lovely swimming pool and sunbathing area which I used frequently.

The view from outside the gate

All set up on our pitch for the week.

This small caravan would probably fit inside ours three times!!!

The beach had the usual promenade running the whole length with a number of restaurants and shops. We went down to the beach one evening where there was quite a party atmosphere going on, all in celebration of a saint who I can't remember the name of, there were loads of people having picnics on the sands and walking up and down the promenade. They were all really enjoying themselves.

We knew that there would be fireworks at some stage so we wandered up and down with everyone else and eventually at midnight the firework display began which was very nice but was soon over and then people ran to the sea to wash away all the negative things in their lives!!

There was a bonfire as well with a few smaller ones on the beach.

A roundabout all lit up near the campsite

We had a couple of trips up the coast to the next town, Moraira, which was quite pretty.

Two sculptures of seagulls and a man looking out to sea!

We have also been up into the mountains, we had seen there was a campsite up there and wondered if we could go up there with our caravan as a change from the coast. However we soon realised that it would be very difficult along those roads and once we found the campsite we realised it would be impossible.

This was the village we had to drive through to get to the campsite and as can be seen there is no way we could have got the caravan through there. Getting into the campsite itself was even narrower.

Rob having a blow on his bagpipes once again.

At one end of Calpe is a very large prominent rock which is known as Penyal d’Ifach and we took a drive to it. We parked the car and then took a walk up a little way, it is possible to walk all the way to the top but we decided it was far too hot and we didn't have the correct shoes on!!!! Instead we were just happy to look at the lovely view and take some photos.