Fri 9 Feb 7° San Jan de los Terreros - La Azohia Beach near Mazzaron

Clear blue sky again, getting used to this....still a cold wind but the sun is warm in sheltered spots...pretty good for winter. Very relaxing being able to take our time with no particular place to be, enjoying our last couple of months touring Spain.

We drove down along the water front, still quite unspoilt, sandy beach and very Spanish, no high rise hotels like further up the coast Benidorm and Alicante , we are heading  that way so will see for ourselves.

We pulled in at Animal service station, very good services, €2 for fresh water and waste dump,  queue of people wanting water, spoke to an English woman who has lived in  Barcelona for 35 years, she said it unusually cold as it has snowd all over Spain even in Barcelona yestereday.

Driving on we saw the spring blossom on the trees, we were winding our way on the road cut between the hills,  would have been the main road, before they built the toll road. Very good surface kept in good repair, lots of abandoned houses , a bus passed us but very little other traffic.  Then into the growing area, plastic greenhouses for miles and fields of lettuce's, then suddenly more traffic and a built up area. Then the blue ocean again as we came parallel with the toll road.

Into our free wild camp for tonight, stoney gravel on a hill side beside a restaurant and Cafe bar. Huge area with about 50 motorhomes, lots of room for more.  A fresh water tap on the beach front and a drain for waste, a Spa shop next door open in the mornings and a bread van that comes round every day with bread and lots of different cakes and pastries.

La Azohia Beach  is between Mazzaron and Cartagena right down on a point in the Mediterranean. A gorgeous bay with paved promanade and again  unspoilt, most restaurants and bars are closed until 15th Feb or March when it probably starts to get full of holiday makers.

We sat in the sun out of the wind, then went for a walk along the seafront warm with the wind dropped away and the slow quiet lapping of the waves gently on the beach wow this place is really peaceful.

Chicken Tikka Masala with courgettes,  rice and naan bread.