Thursday 22 January

Marjal is a newly built campsite with exceptional facilities, it is a self contained village/town which is ideally set up for an extended winter stay, although isolated from any major cultural hot spots the facilities include a supermarket, cafe, restaurant, gym, tennis courts and indoor pool plus an events calendar for every day of the week. Today’s free twice weekly Spanish lesson proved to be extremely popular with more than 30 silver surfers wanting to learn Espanol, how cool is that.

Earlier in the week we ventured into the local hills courtesy of an organised event that we could not have attempted on our own, our bikes have also been put to work getting us around the site and out and about.

  A very blistering climb into the hills

Cycle selfie with solar farm background

Don’t be deceived by the blue skies as the jet stream has been following us south bringing with it bitterly cold north winds and chilling the temperatures, saying that, there are some deluded folks here on site topping up their tans sporting shorts and tee shirts. Believe it or not it is very, very cold.