After the day we had yesterday we managed to get as far as Sevilla as we were leaving the final wonder i did contemplate doing the full 4 hour drive but to be fair i wouldn’t have arrived until midnight. We stopped around the back of a sports centre just outside Sevilla and it was another freebie so it was a useful stop. We were up early as i wanted to start on the remaining hundred or so miles. The weather was outrageous and wind i had never seen before. It was at this point i knew i had messed up! Lisa being the detective that she is did some research and discovered our destination was in fact an actual wind tunnel. Due to the the top of Africa and the tip of Spain it actually funnels the wind and makes it a haven for wind related sport.
We arrived at the site about 12:30 and i always think you can get a feel for a site as soon as you arrive and i wasn’t feeling it. I am hoping that my opinion changes but it hasn’t started great. Everyone just feels a bit unfriendly and a bit unwelcoming. We got checked in and found a pitch, the woman advised us that one section was out of the way of the wind. Lisa wanted to go somewhere else, so we found a nice pitch and managed to get the awning up and the pop top. The wind was dreadful i contemplated taking the awning down. We were hungry so thought we would try the campsite restaurant out. We got in and i ordered 2 cokes and asked for a menu but the man didn’t speak English but advised us that food didn’t start until 7pm. Another X against the site, we checked the internet and found there is a beach bar across the road by the beach. The beach is only a 5 minute walk away, back onto google and found a pizza place down the road but this time a phone call was made to check if it was open. Fortunately it was.
The place was nice, it was a Borussia Dortmund themed sports bar which was odd. But the food was great, i had pizza and Lisa had pasta. The people in here were already far more accommodating than the site. It was quite busy and there were a number of people from the site in this bar and that tells you a lot. We contemplated packing up and finding somewhere with less wind and more hospitable accommodation but we thought we would give it a chance. So off we popped back to the camper and listened to the most wild wild wind i have ever heard.
