{"id":3499,"date":"2020-03-06T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2020-03-10T20:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:16:59","slug":"eurotrip-8-2020-day-51-to-54-calm-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 8, 2020 \u2013 Day 51 to 54, Calm returns\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our first visitors from Blighty returned home yesterday and we have a few days before our next guests arrive and occupy one of the fine bungalows at Camping La Roselada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 51 (Tuesday) was a total chill day. I need not comment on the weather. It’s wall-to-wall sunshine with temperatures in the early to mid 20s, dependent on the wind direction. The wind still carries a chill to it and temperatures fall away dramatically overnight but we are enjoying some exceptional weather this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday we caught the bus to El Palmar for the walk back to Conil. The Bus station is a soulless place but it is clean, modern and entirely fit for its purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Estacion de L’Autobus, Conil de la Frontera, Spain 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We ate lunch near the old tower and the surfing beach was a busy place today with many surf schools in progress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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El Palmar, The Surfers Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As we approach Conil, the area and beaches are simply stunning – the best in Spain? Perhaps even the most unspoilt in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View towards Conil from El Palmar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And the reward for the long walk back from El Palmar, a swift beer at our favourite beach restauarant, known locally as “The Shack”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Shack, Conil de la Frontera, Spain 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Evening was English quiz night in the restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday and we are on Day 53. Bit of a quiet day, fixing the splashback on the kitchen post a visit to Leroy Merlin. The splashback had already been replaced under warranty but it didn’t fit properly and a strong glue applied in an attempt to oversome these issues had resulted in the rear film delaminating from the perspex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I removed all the lamination and applied a grey spray paint to the rear of the splashback, before re-assembling and filling gaps with a flexible silicone. I doubt the spray paint is a robust solution but it was best I could think of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, the eve of the arrival of our daughter Sue and boyfriend Carlos, involved much shopping (quite how many provisions a young couple need for 6 nights is mind-boggling).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, I did manage to slot in a nice 10 mile bike ride to cabo Roche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bike ride to Cabo Roche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The evening’s entertainment was a three course set meal at the campsite restauarant with entertainment from “Spanish Elvis”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a remarkably enjoyable affair and Spanish Elvis had the place rocking. There’s a rumour he may be back for another show in which case I ought to try and capture some pictures or video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first visitors from Blighty returned home yesterday and we have a few days before our next guests arrive and occupy one of the fine bungalows at Camping La Roselada. Day 51 (Tuesday) was a total chill day. I need not comment on the weather. It’s wall-to-wall sunshine with temperatures in the early to mid … Continue reading Eurotrip 8, 2020 \u2013 Day 51 to 54, Calm returns\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-europe-spain","category-2020-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}