Had dinner with T&D at the site's restaurant, nice, me steak, T hamburger, T&D, that thing with rice and fish stuff for two, and a couple of drinks. Next morning 8am, SWMBO thought it was still night, everything done and left at 9am, said “sod off and good riddance”, to T&D and on our way. Uneventful really, no wheels fell off and we arrived at Roquetas at about 3:30pm. Managed to drive, forwards, straight on to a pitch and that was it! Well not quite. We are in the German zone and because as I had parked about 3° out of true the guy opposite kept on telling me, in fluent German, that I needed to do it correctly. I got the feeling if I didn't it would be lampshade time, so complied.
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| On the way there |
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| Nearly there |
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| Our new pitch |
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| Comfy? |
Introduced ourself's to the next door neighbours and after explaining that we will be around for 4 months, they said that they would be leaving tomorrow!
Game of Dos, close but I won brilliantly, and SWMBO decided to have a bottle of fizz, I've never seen her so drunk, had to undress her and put her to bed, got quite exciting. She is now tucked up with her Penguin and I'll be blamed for everything as usual, not going to get lucky in the morning that's for sure.
Monday 6th December 2010.
I had forgotten what the facilities were like here. First, it's hard standing so I need back the two bits of wood I threw away at Zahora 'cos I didn't know what they were for, they were extra slide out supports. We need to get our “green” down asap as the small granite gravel gets dragged into the MS and also goes to mush when it rains.
The showers are great, constant, no button and powerful. Getting used to a different toilet seat, orifice size and shape, and height off the ground is a bit of a challenge however. Even the toilet paper is softer, not a bad idea as it's curry night tonight!
The rates are about the same as Zahora when you average it out i.e. after 60 days it's €8/day plus electricity @ 32 cent/KW, so we use gas for everything, Wi-Fi is 75 cents/day long term, so taking everything together it's about €11/day. (German lessons are extra)
We are surrounded by Germans and it brings back the memories from 26th February earlier this year.
http://swinsblog2010.blogspot.com/2010/02/friday-26th-february-2010-roquetas-and.html will clue you in. Looks like we will be catching up on our German then.
It's definitely drier and warmer here and as as it is apparently thundering and lightning back in Zahora, I guess we made the right choice. What we did not expect when we arrived was to be asked if we had booked! The camp is almost full or rather the pitches are booked by the long term people who arrive just before or just after Christmas. They only gave us a choice of about 10 pitches and although probably could have got onto all of them I think we picked the best one.
Hells teeth! That German opposite us has just produced an accordion, welcome to hell.
It's a balmy 21 degrees here, no wind and people are out in their cossies sunbathing. Just had a trip round the town of Roquetas and a lot of the shops have closed, permanently.
Cycling is now back on the menu!
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