One of the couples staying at Sheppards Rest had recommended the “Pensioners” bar at Guardamar so this was an opportunity for our second cycle ride to the town with a nice lunch. We were sceptical about the “Pensioners” bar as we are some way from being pensioners but I guess we are heading in that direction and we were assured that the place was worth visiting.

The cycle route took us along the service road that we had discovered earlier in the trip and all we had to do was find somewhere to cross the dried-up river and our lunchtime reward would be waiting for us.

As it turns out, about 20m from turning back the prior day, was a cycle path across the river. We found Guardamar and the restaurant which was actually called Café Jaen (the reference to pensioners was the hotel above which was called “Pension”. So not a pensioners bar after all. Lunch was great with the 3 course set menu costing a total of 20 Euros for the two of us and a few extra Euros for a couple of beers.