A trip along the coast

It was rather a gloomy morning when we awoke after having been disturbed during the night by some mosquitos  which are last thing you want buzzing around your head when trying to sleep. So we shut the window and covered ourselves with the sheet to avoid getting bitten as Jennifer always suffers very badly when bitten and so this was not to good.

For breakfast we were the only two in the room, in fact we were not sure anybody else was staying there. For when we arrived they had left out some little cakes which flies were busy devouring and breakfast consisted of two bits of toasted baguette and small jars of jam, a glass of orange juice and they did not have any English breakfast tea and so Jennifer went back to the room to raid our stock. So it was enough to eat but the flies and with last nights mozzies and although they had left out a mozzie killer spray it was pretty much empty.
Our plan for the day, knowing that the restaurant at the Hotel would only be open until mid afternoon, was to drive along the coast and see what we could see and find a nice town and stop for lunch. Well the first town we came to with lots of restaurants and lots of people and also lots of cars and so the nearest you could appear to park was about 1.5 miles away and almost out of town. We then tried again in another town and had the same difficulty as before and then realised we would have to find a restaurant out of town with parking but with the concern being it may not be so good due lack of competition. Anyway we found a place which looked about 50% full and asked if they had a table and they looked little worried and then they moved a reserved sign and sat us down. Boy we needed a beer.
The menu was, surprisingly in Spanish without any English translation and none of the staff spoke any English apart from a few basic words but using out translation book we could find out what time of fish they had and so Noel ordered the skate and Jennifer the Turbot. Both dishes when they arrived were huge and the fish was delicious. Both came with a salad. There was a set meal for the day which looked brilliant starting with a fish soup and big enough to swamp Essex, followed by all sorts of stuff but Noel with his challenges and pointing out in Spanish about no garlic and onions we decided to leave alone, which was a shame really as it all looked so good. Shame I forgot to take same photos.
We stopped at a Lupo supermarket earlier in the day and purchased some bread and ham and yogurts, the bread and ham for a sandwich for when we got back to the Hotel and the yogurts to add flavour to our breakfast.
The journey along and back along the coast was quite nice and so unlike the Costas, no ‘English Fish Chips’ served here signs or any other tell tale signs,
We got back to the Hotel and then found that the main gate had been locked and there we were standing with our shopping and other stuff in the rain wondering how to climb an 8 for fence with spikes and then we espied a bell which we rang several times and finally someone appeared and then they told us that the bulbous thing attached to the keys was a remote to open the gates.
In the evening we sat out side for a glass of wine and  our ham sandwiches before returning to the room to watch some Netflix stuff. It was a nice only marred by the poor weather but then again Spain has had some seriously bad weather during the past few days.