The idea was to tour around a bit of Spain and then spend a week in the timeshare in Alcossebre again. Until I can get rid of it, it's a bit of a millstone around my neck. Since I bought it cheap off a friend in 1993 we have tended to use it for "exchange" travel mainly to the US.
Since becoming motorhomers we had used it less but why not have it as a base? Other motorhomers flock to Spain and spend three months on a site with thousands of others. So what's the difference. And it is only a week. Asked why we choose this one, it's because we have a dog and only about 5% of available complexes allow dogs.
The booking was made last year and the apartment stay should have coincided with out Silver Wedding Anniversary but it was fully booked! So I booked the week afterwards!
Then came an added complication in that we have been invited to the 70th birthday "surprise" party for an old mate and colleague from the early 80's when we both worked in the "data processing" department at FIAT Auto firstly in Brentford and latterly Alperton (in the old Lancia Building!) and then Uxbridge above the bus station. John left for pastures new and a while later I was made redundant!
We have kept in touch and when I was working in Islington he too worked locally for his father's video editing and sub titling company. He lived at first near Samer in Pas-de-Calais but now lives in an idyllic little village in the south west between Carcassonne and Narbonne. We have visited once before and as he and his wife have cats, and we have a dog, we stayed in the van.
On that visit we had one overnight before the timeshare check-in and we stayed on the aire at St Cyprien Plage. This time I expect there will be some drinking and carousing and so his wife has organised a parking aire for us in the village that currently doesn't have any camping-car parking!
The plan after the party is to head down the coast into Spain and look for a site near Roses for a few nights and have our wedding anniversary taken care of! Then down the coast for another couple of nights before we check-in to the timeshare.
If anyone knows of dog friendly beaches along the Med coast, then please comment!
So the stage is set.
Since becoming motorhomers we had used it less but why not have it as a base? Other motorhomers flock to Spain and spend three months on a site with thousands of others. So what's the difference. And it is only a week. Asked why we choose this one, it's because we have a dog and only about 5% of available complexes allow dogs.
The booking was made last year and the apartment stay should have coincided with out Silver Wedding Anniversary but it was fully booked! So I booked the week afterwards!
Then came an added complication in that we have been invited to the 70th birthday "surprise" party for an old mate and colleague from the early 80's when we both worked in the "data processing" department at FIAT Auto firstly in Brentford and latterly Alperton (in the old Lancia Building!) and then Uxbridge above the bus station. John left for pastures new and a while later I was made redundant!
We have kept in touch and when I was working in Islington he too worked locally for his father's video editing and sub titling company. He lived at first near Samer in Pas-de-Calais but now lives in an idyllic little village in the south west between Carcassonne and Narbonne. We have visited once before and as he and his wife have cats, and we have a dog, we stayed in the van.
On that visit we had one overnight before the timeshare check-in and we stayed on the aire at St Cyprien Plage. This time I expect there will be some drinking and carousing and so his wife has organised a parking aire for us in the village that currently doesn't have any camping-car parking!
The plan after the party is to head down the coast into Spain and look for a site near Roses for a few nights and have our wedding anniversary taken care of! Then down the coast for another couple of nights before we check-in to the timeshare.
If anyone knows of dog friendly beaches along the Med coast, then please comment!
So the stage is set.
