Saturday October 11, 2014

When we are camping we get up and pack the tent before it is even light. It gets light at about 8:15 and then very quickly the skies brighten and we can be on the road by 9:00 with light skies. We had our breakfast on the patio of the restaurant, the Clampetts have arrived again.

We headed out on the busy N340/A7 towards Marbella. Our destination for today is at another campsite, about 5 ks outside of the Town of Marbella. We have reserved a “Bengali” it is a condominium tent. The forecast is for thunderstorms and rain tomorrow and our tent will not hold up to excessive rain.

The route was not too bad, although along the busy A7, it wasn’t much fun. You have to concentrate too much on the traffic to really enjoy the coastal scenery.

We arrived in Marbella which is a very large resort town. As we cycled through we spotted a bike shop. The first bike shop we have seen in ages, we stopped in and Ralf bought some replacement brake pads. They had some nice gear, and not too expensive.

We overshot the campsite by about 500 metres, so had to cross a pedestrian bridge to get back to it.

Our Bengali – condominium tent consists of an open plan living area, which has a table with four chairs, a fridge, 2 burner stove, a stainless steel worktop and all the glasses, pots and pans for 4 people. The bedrooms (2) consists of a double bed and the second bedroom has bunk beds and a single bed. Very cosy. The “patio” has space for a table with 4 chairs. You take the table from inside the tent to the outside of the tent!

Once we had settled in to this spacious accommodation, I proceeded to clean the bikes. It has been a while and with the rain from yesterday, they definitely needed a good clean.

We set up our tent to dry out and Ralf gave it a good clean. Ralf went to get some groceries for dinner and came back with chicken, some fresh veges and potatoes – we had a lovely dinner with chicken, stir fry veges and potatoes with a mediocre bottle of white wine.

We had a chat to our neighbours (Spanish) and they asked if we had a car? The men were surprised that I was cleaning the bikes, while Ralf was doing the shopping, cleaning the tent and preparing dinner!

We were in bed by 10:30pm lulled to sleep by the sound of the A7!! It is a very busy road and noisy.