Making the most of the weather

Friday 16 May

Having studied the weather forecast, we decided that we would have a lazy day at the campsite today.

We had to drive out to the local SPAR shop to buy bread for breakfast, the shop is about a kilometre away.  We sat outside and ate breakfast and then organised ourselves to spend the day at the "Espace Bien Etre" or Balneo.  This cost us the princely sum of 5 Euros each.

We think that this facility on the campsite is a new addition this year and consists of an irregularly shaped pool with lots of water jets.  There are various bubbling water beds, bubble pools and meandering streams and bridges to swim in and sun loungers and sun shades around the pool area.  The water was clearly heated too which made it rather pleasant.



The campsite also boasts a small spa with Hamman and Sauna - we subsequently found out it was 25 Euros for a brief visit - not good value for money.

At lunchtime, we returned to the tent to eat and then returned to the Balneo for the afternoon.  The weather was mainly sunny and warm until mid-afternoon when is started to cloud over and a cool breeze picked up.

At around 4-o-clock, we returned to the tent for a drink and got changed out of our swimming things.

After lazing around for a couple of hours and catching up with the travel diary which may become a blog (you will know this by now), we headed up to the beach and the campsite restaurant.

The menu was fairly extensive, although the waiter explained that there were 4 or 5 things not available.  Pizzas were definitely available from a wood-burning oven - yippee! The pizzas were delicious, thin base, nice and crusty and wonderful traditional toppings.  We also enjoyed the dance troupe practising for their summer routine on the outdoor stage.  Luckily for us, the entertainment programme doesn't start until the 24th May - after we have left!

The other entertainment was the huge numbers of swallows flying in and out of the restaurant which is open to the elements.  I'm sure when architect designed this building, which is very nice, he or she had no idea it would have become colonised by swallows in the summer.  You just have to hope that nothing drops into your dinner....