On the road (3) A (hopefully) sunny September road trip to Spain COMPLETED - Page 33 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Glad you enjoyed the carvery more than you'd hoped.
I think I speak for all your faithful readers here when I say perhaps you should treat us all to a round of pink fizz
Well, I can gladly open a bottle over here, if you want to pop round!
Monday 13 September – part one: oh great, what’s that buzzing noise?
I was awoken by a worryingly familiar buzzing noise. Oh great, another mosquito in our room. I lay there for a few minutes, trying to ignore it, as it was only 7am, but there was no way I could go back to sleep with that thing in the room with us. I was too worried about how many chunks it might take out of me – or how many it already had.... As the day wore on, it became clear that the score was three, one on the bottom half of each leg and one on my left ankle.
We had breakfast and were moving pretty quickly this morning.
The Russian Orthodox church we went to on a previous visit out here More orange trees being protected
We headed out in convoy, bound for Callosa, where Barb and Dave had found a new honey shop. The last one we’d visited had been pretty impressive, so I wasn’t sure how this one would be much better, but my goodness it was. Here’s the scene that greeted us when we arrived:
They had little samples that you could taste, which was much better than the other place, where you had to buy what you thought you’d like and take the risk with it, hence the chocolate honey that had ended up being thrown away. I knew that, last time, I’d liked the almond and the orange varieties, so I tried those first, just to confirm that I did still like them. All was good, as I did.
I then tried a third one, sugar, which I really liked, so I decided to opt for all three of them. There were various others I sampled, but they didn’t do anything for me, so that was my lot. You can see the size of the jars we bought and each one was €5 ($6.50), which I thought was great value. It was so much fun to see the guy serving them up for us and I’m glad we came here, as it was a fun place, as well as having a good, very cheap selection of honey.
When we came out of the shop, we headed back to our respective cars and went our separate ways. Dave, Barb, Peter and Frances were going to Guadalest, but I wanted to go and see the waterfalls nearby, the Fonts de l’Algar, as I’d heard they were pretty good. We were warned by Dave that they were notoriously difficult to find, as the signage wasn’t very good, so we set off, slightly concerned that we couldn’t see them marked on the map and that dear old Tim couldn’t find them either. However, we had no need to worry, as they were well signposted all the way.
Some of the trees being protected here were apricots
Thank goodness Dave had said to Mark to drive past the first two car parks, as they were some distance from the actual entrance. He was right. They were probably 200 metres down from the entrance and it would’ve been quite a hike just to get to the entrance. Ok, so we had to pay €3 ($4)for the privilege of parking right by the entrance, but that didn’t bother us. :
We headed in and paid the €3 entry each and were greeted almost straight away with the stunning sight of the waterfalls.
By the way, we did open another bottle of Geoff's pink fizz last night and the invite was there, but sadly we didn't get any other PassPorters joining us. Can't think why...
Oo, I love waterfalls! That water looks so clear - and cold!
Sorry to have missed the pink fizz last night! What's it called - in case there's a chance of finding it on this side of the pond?
I feel as if I was there in "pink fizz" spirit, anyways .
Sorry about that mosquito - they love sweet girls like us!
It's so neat that the villa is within close distance to such a variety of attractions.
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More great updates Cheryl. Sounds like you had a very relaxing day and isn't that what vacations are for? Sorry you got 3 bites - yikes. the waterfalls look so refreshing.
Oo, I love waterfalls! That water looks so clear - and cold!
Sorry to have missed the pink fizz last night! What's it called - in case there's a chance of finding it on this side of the pond?
The now-empty bottle (we finished it tonight! ) tells me it's Rosada Cava Dulce from Sant Sadurni d'Anoia....
I feel as if I was there in "pink fizz" spirit, anyways .
Sorry about that mosquito - they love sweet girls like us!
It's so neat that the villa is within close distance to such a variety of attractions.
Just got to catch up on your last few posts, I loved reading about your last trip to Spain and I am enjoying every minute of this one as well as the sights are just breathtaking. I love how so many areas still have that old world charm. What a great price on the honey, a very nice size jar and the waterfalls were beautiful...that water looked amazing.
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As the day wore on, it became clear that the score was three, one on the bottom half of each leg and one on my left ankle. 
They were probably 200 metres down from the entrance and it would’ve been quite a hike just to get to the entrance. 
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as I just knew you'd make every effort to be here with us! 
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