We set got up, said our farewells to Jacky & Donal & set off on Tuesday about 12:30 with Dave asking me to pop “Alicante” into the Sat Navs.
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I then grabbed the camping books & looked at the map and realised BENIDORM was on the way !!! . And I’ve never been…. And I KNOW it’s January but I didn’t fancy visiting another closed town…
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Dave wasn’t super-keen but we did end up at Camping Villasol which is about a 10 minute cycle ride into town & the beach…
Dave wasn’t super-keen but we did end up at Camping Villasol which is about a 10 minute cycle ride into town & the beach…
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On the way Dave wanted to detour into València as he’s been there a few times with MotoGP and he said it was a lovely city.
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We had a drive around & it IS lovely and huge – just (as with most cities) no easy place to dump a motor home & go for a coffee…
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Few piccies below – check out the City of Arts & Sciences which is a tremendous building but as my piccie from The Van doesn’t do it justice – also see the “proper” photo from t’internet !!!
Few piccies below – check out the City of Arts & Sciences which is a tremendous building but as my piccie from The Van doesn’t do it justice – also see the “proper” photo from t’internet !!!
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Also they like to build things on their roundabouts – nice fountains, sparkly navy huge round things 😂
Also they like to build things on their roundabouts – nice fountains, sparkly navy huge round things 😂
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And Dave was impressed that they had Astro-turfed the tramline so there’s a piccie of that too…
And Dave was impressed that they had Astro-turfed the tramline so there’s a piccie of that too…
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And I was impressed with the orange trees that were growing at the side of the road !!!
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Benidorm update to follow 😎
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- Location: 38° 32′ 7.37″ N 0° 7′ 40.23″ W