Ice cold in Torrevieja......

There's a storm brewing.......

Apologies dear readers for not posting for a while, but we have been without Internet for the last couple of weeks, wild camping (which is, just to clarify, staying off campsites, it could be anywhere, but usually a parking area close to the sea) so I'm a bit behind on keeping you up to date with our adventures! In my last post we were waiting to see what the weather was about to do....

Yes we did get the snow!! But luckily we were staying in Rojales with our friends Janet and Frank where we were able to spend the day in their living room, log fire burning and all their dogs curled up in their beds in front of it.

It was the first snowfall in the area for over thirty years and certainly made the headlines in Spain! The four dogs, who are all Spanish rescue dogs, were decidedly unimpressed and absolutely refused to go out of the house all day, taking one look outside and scuttling back to their beds in front of the fire!

The view from our window - beachside near Santa Pola

We had left Castellon the previous Thursday, driving 200km south to a secluded beachside spot not far south of Alicante, we were able to park for a night within a few yards of the shoreline, the sound of the waves lulling us to sleep that night. From there we drove the short journey to Rojales and Janet and Frank where we stayed for six nights. During that time we had some wonderful meals out as well as Janet treating us to her fantastic Paella shared with their friends Janet and Dave. When it comes to eating out, if you have local knowledge it's amazing how incredibly cheaply you can eat in the local restaurants, the average price being about 10€ per person, but you have to know where to find these places! One night we had a huge Chinese meal and the bill was only 42€ (about £35) including drinks! I really don't know how they can do it at those prices.

It's not our fault really!!! Look it's not snowing or raining in this photo

The snow didn't stay long but with floods just after Christmas, the snow and cold weather in southern Spain the cost of courgettes, lettuces and other seasonal fruit rose sharply in the U.K. Now a lot of our friends joke about the way we jinx the weather when we go away, but being the cause of the coldest Spanish winter in years can't be us - could it?