It’s Valentines day today. It hadn’t occurred to me before we left Blighty that finding cards over here in Spain might be equally as difficult as finding a wedding anniversary card in Croatia (last year)!

Moe of course had apparently brought one she purchased last year, claiming that it wasn’t the one actually given last year but just an unsued one. Hmm. Work that out.

Fortunately Amazon Prime came up trumps with a nicely deisgned, hand-decorated card, boxed with our new travel kettle. Bit of a cheek really because I had to pay about £6 additional postage on each item for delivery to Conil and Amazon just popped them into the same outer box.

The campsite laid on a four course meal in the evening which was excellent.

During the day, we had visited another of the white Spanish villages.

Arcos de la Frontera

One of Andalucia’s most dramatically positioned pueblos blancos (white villages), Arcos balances atop a rocky limestone ridge, its whitewashed houses and stone castle walls stopping abruptly as a sheer cliff face plunges down to the river Guadalete below.

As it was still siesta time, we stopped at the terrace at the Parador Hotel on Plaza del Cabildo – this is the place to go for a leisurely drink and enjoy the best views in Arcos. It doesn’t look like it will be too long before the crumbling limescale ridge becomes a real issue for the monuments.

Castillo de Arcos (11th-15th-century castle), is a medieval castle of Moorish origin having been rebuilt almost entirely in the first half of the 15th century. Currently it is private property and not open to the public.

Iglesia de San Pedro is a 15th-17th century church built on the site of a 14th century Al-Andalusian fortress or watchtower. Different styles can be observed here in its tower and facade.