L’Estartit (day 2).

We realised last night just how quiet staying on the aires was.There are families on the campsite (with more arriving now), and being Spanish they can’t help but be noisy.

We started the day slowly, catching up on our washing and generally taking things easy. Around lunchtime we cycled to the outskirts of the town to a supermarket to pick up some supplies.

This afternoon, nearly everybody seemed to be out from the campsite, so we took the opportunity to go in one of the hot tubs for an hour and a half, then spent fifteen minutes on a sun lounger by the pool. If anyone had said to us before we left, that hot tubs and sun loungers would feature in a John and Angela holiday, we would have said “no way”.

We took a walk early evening into town, to see how preparations for this weekends pirate festival were going.  there were lots of stalls set up selling sausage, olives, pottery etc. We are always a bit wary of buying food for sale outside, with the heat of the sun and the flies never to far away. After a walk we returned to the beachside bar we went to last night for a drink. All around, there was activity, props being set up for reinactments and fireworks being set up for this evening.

Whist sitting outside the bar we got talking to a couple from south wales, they told us there was a very good ice cream shop in Mumbles.

After our dinner of paella, we will return to the town to watch the pirate festivities that will begin at nine o’ clock.

We went down and watched overlooking the beach, then up through the town where the pirates accompanied by a very loud cannon, and traditional musicians entertained the diners who sat outside at the restaurants.