It’s very peaceful at the campsite and we would have a quiet week ahead after our various trips.

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Thursday we walked into Conil via the beach and noted just how many campervans are now parked up at the main beach car park. It’s doubtful that these are just staying during the daytime! The nice spell of weather is continuing but the mini heatwave is behind us.

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The highlight of Friday was a trip to Chiclana. Primarily to refill our gas bottle but there was the inevitable stopover at the bakery, La Cremita.

The sourdough bread (La Cremita only make Sourdough bread) is all freshly baked with natural ingredients. The empanada (or “pie”) was ham, cheese and onion baked in a delicious puff pastry. Moe chose the desserts and honestly, no idea where they were kept or how long they lasted…

Evening was another community meal – the food was Italian themed and the disco played music from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

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Saturday we cycled to the Port of Sancti Petri, a pleasant 30 mile journey. We had time for a swift beer at one of the port restaurants.

There is now a new cycle route open from the urbanisation Roche all the way into Novi Sancti Petri.

Some pictures from the port of Sancti Petri below.

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Tuesday and we booked a table at our favourite restaurant in this area for lunch with Richard and Jennifer. El Jardin del Califa is situated in the heart of the pretty white andalucian village of Vejer de la Frontera. It’s about a 12 mile cycle ride which took the four of us over two hours. The route is quite hilly and the final three kilometres into Vejer is very steep. We weren’t helped by a vicious and cold headwind all the way to Vejer.

The Moroccan food at El Calife is superb and the building is just a maze of passageways, stairs, underground vaults and finally a pretty and sheltered garden. In the shelter of the patio, it was a rather pleasant afternoon.

My plate of BBQ meats was excellent but after sharing two of the house Meze starters, I just wasn’t able to finish. Richard helped me out!!

The Plaza de Espana in Vejer looks as well kept and clean as always.

The cycle ride back to our campsite was a lot easier than on our outward trip. This time we had wind behind us and much less uphill terrain.

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Wednesday we spent much of the day preparing for our next jaunt in the Campervan. Not forgetting the important Wednesday evening quiz night. We finished a respectable 3 points off the winner but no place and cash this time around. If only I’d listened to Jennifer a bit harder we could well have been two points closer.

One more shot at the elusive first prize next Wednesday and then we head off on our different ways…