Before we went to bed last night, we stood on the beach, and looked across the bay at the lights of Peniscola.
A rainbow of colours, pin pricking the night sky.
This morning at nine o' clock the sun was dazzling, lighting the aqua marine sea. Along with Marge, we were glad to see we were still on dry land, despite the closeness of the shoreline. Feeling settled here, we decided to have a fairly restful day, and stay another night. We have plenty of time to reach Dieppe, and there is no way we're giving up the sunshine and warmth until we have to.
At lunchtime, we packed our Serrano ham, salad baguettes into our rucksacks, and cycled along the excellent seafront cycle-way to Peniscola castle, stopping en-route for John to photograph Angela, who was very pleased at solving the towns wordsearch puzzle!
Up at the castle, we could see restoration, or should we say ruination work was taking place.
Along one wall, near to an entrance, that appeared to have been the rear entrance to the castle, there were marks in a stone lintel, that to us looked like the result of cannonball fire. If this is the case, we hope the restorers leave well alone, and do not infill with modern stone.
The streets around the castle were narrow, and the views over the castles artillery gardens beautiful.
The temperature this afternoon reached 28c. We can hardly believe, that at the beginning of the week the weather was so inclement. We know the weather is once again not so good at home, and to add to the misery, the clocks go back an hour this weekend, meaning it will be dark quite early in the evening. In the meantime it's sun, sea and sangria here!
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