9th, 10,11, 12th October in Roses Spain

We've always liked this town so we booked in for 4 nights at Camping Salata. The weather was now cooling with day temps around 18c but sometimes feeling much cooler. However we still enjoyed our stay and used the time to get the last of our Spanish booze to take home. We also bought baby Aiden a Barcelona strip and I enjoyed a bit of bartering with a shopkeeper getting the price of a baby Bayern Munich tracksuit down from 45e to 30e.
Jonesy also met up with two Welsh terriers...Lou from The Loire valley and Lottie from Heidelberg Germany. Lottie took a real shine to Jonesy and actually stood for him offering him his first love encounter. But then the owner took out a bag of treats and she quickly shifted her attention. Which yet again proves when food and love are both on the menu women always choose the former.
With regards to our menu we never quite find the great eating places of Javea in this town. However we did discover the hotel buffets which offer as much as you can eat for around 15 -16 Euro. We tried 2 of these with the last one at the Hotel Montecarlo being the better with a bottle of wine thrown in for 16e each
We left a very rainy and windy Roses on the Thursday.

Saturday 8th October Terrible Taradell

Went through Taradell looking for site , narrow streets. Got tight on to a parked van ... couldn't go forward or back for fear of scratching side of van so had to knock on doors. Eventually found irate owner who reluctantly moved van..first hurdle over
Proceeded to site . As dog owners we had to drive to top pitch up a steep avenue and then back down the next. This avenue was like a rollercoaster ride so back chassis and bike rack got wedged and once again we couldn't go forward or back. Site workers came to our aid and with wooden blocks we drove away . Nice site but never again

The Taradell rollercoaster ride.

Lake Caspe

Lake Caspe

Lake Caspe

Lake Caspe

5th October 1 night stay at medieval city Albaraccin

Forgot to mention

Halfway through our Javea Stay the 12v electrics cut out in the middle of the night. Myself and various people tried to fix it but whilst looking for the fault we noticed mice droppings. We put traps out and caught the bastard. We probably picked it up on last site Ribamar. So no 12v for the remainder of the hols. It must have chewed through a wire

More pics from Javea and other places visited.

Calpe

Benidorm

Benidorm bar

More Javia pics

Port and harbour

Arenal beach

Lightning tour of Benidorm

How much is that doggy I'm the window Benidorm

15th September we arrived at our favourite Spanish resort ..Javea.

We had a great 20 day stay here and loved having our friends Owen (8 nights) and Laura (4 nights) joining us. We used the hire, car to visit Moreira, Calpe, Denia, Granadella and the not to our liking Benidorm. Every night we ate out at a different restaurant, either in the old town or the port. We also enjoyed eating in the afternoon at most of the towns visited. We made several friends at the La Capita bar in town.
Jonesy went down with gastroenteritis and had to visit the vet where he was given two injections and a course of antibiotics
He recovered well but then started behaving strangely at night. Then one night when the 12v electrics cut out and we searched for the fault, we discovered mouse droppings. We quickly caught the fiend but were left with no 12v electrics Jonesy improved at night but obviously the mouse jaded frightened him. Looking back we probably picked up the mouse at Ribamar.