Last night as we sat in the balmy warmth of a typical
Spanish night supping the last of our Cwm Derri wines, we noticed two forlorn
looking characters wandering bye.
Being of generous nature I called out ‘HOLA’.
Well how was I to know they were the only two Finnish people on the campsite?
The lady spoke reasonable English and her partner very
little, but before long they were at the table enjoying our hospitality and we
spent an enjoyable hour discussing everything under the sun.
We did discover
that they didn’t like the Germans flaunting their nudity on the beach, I wonder
if that’s because most of them are in there sixties, now if it had been nubile
twenty year olds their story may have turned out different.
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We are learning a lot about how everything works here at the
moment ….
The electricity is metered and we are charged € 0.35c per Kwt, the
fridge we run on gas and nearly all of the cooking is on gas but we do have a Romoska
that is very frugal with electric.
One tip we had was to take a 5ltr bottle to
the communal sinks and fill up with hot water as it saves using your gas to
heat it.
We have made friends with a couple named Nigel & Lyn who
have been here a while, they are the couple who have invited us out tomorrow evening
with their friends for a Chinese meal. They gave us directions of how to get to
a caravan shop where we were able to get a new trailer connector to replace the
broken one and where the local shops mainly Lidl, Iceland and Marcadona were.
Out
of the three Marcadona was the cheapest and Iceland the dearest so now we know
where we will do our shopping. Iceland had all the usual English fare but at
very inflated prices a Tin of Roses chocolate that you could buy in the UK for
£5 here they charged £10….that’s a 100% mark up disgraceful.
A bottle of red wine in Lidl was 0.95c just over £1 and just
as cheap in Marcadona so we have stocked up with German bier, Sangria and red
wine from Lidl. Vegetables, fruit, bread,
cheese and milk from Marcadona. The only thing we purchased at Iceland was two
tubs of Carte D’or ice cream as they were on offer, I’m not tight but I believe
in value for money.
We stopped on the way back from the Caravan shop to fill up
the toad (Toyota) with unleaded petrol and the price per Ltr € 1.32 = £1.20p using
the tourist rate of €1.10 to the £.
I’m getting used to driving here in Spain but I’ll not
chance the big cities until I’m more confident of my abilities to get out of
any trouble.
We have worked out our LPG consumption for the trip and we
are very pleased with the outcome the distance we did on LPG was 481 miles on
240Ltrs of LPG, a consumption rate of 9.10 miles to the Gallon we could have possibly
achieved a lower rate if we didn’t have to go faster than 50mph to catch up
with our travelling companions.
We will be visiting the new site of Camping Marjel Costa
Blanca next month to view the new site and the pitches with a very nice Spanish
lady called Eva to see if we like the pitch and the layout of the new site so
we are looking forward to that.
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