The Bateria de Castillitos (on Cabo Tiñoso) is another world war II ruin. If the reason for their existence wasn’t so terrible, the buildings themselves would look quite good, with their little towers. The guns were apparantly manufactured in Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness! I preferred taking photos of birds, rather than guns… On the way down the…

We intended to just go for a stroll around the lighthouse, but we ended up walking all over Cabo de Palos. We then drove on to the Cabo Tiñoso to stay for the night. The narrow and bumpy roads reminded us of Iceland 🙂 We walked up to the Bateria del Atalayõn (a military defence…

Before we drove off, we had another walk round the nature reserve. We then set out to find the pink lagoon (Laguna Salada de Torreviejo), but unfortunately it wasn’t the right time of year to see the pink colour. We went for a walk anyway, and we saw lots of lovely flowers, some birds, and…

Not far from Elx there is a birdwatching place, a nature park. We saw lots of different ducks and flamingos. After a bit of a walk we came to a more secluded place to watch more flamingos, and some cormorans. The guy at the info center told us, we’d find some ducks with light blue…

We decided to walk to the barrier lake not far from the car park. The landscape looks like a desert It’s been a long time since any electricity was produced The walk took us along the lake, and then through some interesting looking hills and a little canyon Of course we also saw a lot…

This park is just north of Benidorm. It’s done up very touristy. We walked up to the light tower Faro de l’Albir The view from the top was splendid Afterwards we drove on past Alicante, to a town called Elx/Elche. There are probably more palm trees than inhabitants!

Enjoying the great view from the Cap de Sant Antoni, before we drive on The journey takes us via Alcalali and Castell de Castells. There are a lot of cyclists on the road. Cars have to have 1.5 to 2 meters distance when overtaking cyclists, no matter if there is an unbroken line in the…

Our satnav punishes us every now and again (when we don’t obey …). This time we were guided into an orange plantation, and we had to turn back when the road got too bad Valencia looks like an interesting city, but we decided to drive through all the same We then stopped at the National…

After a good breakfast we left this beautiful place and drove down narrow and winding roads, to the Dehesa de Soneja. There we went for a long hike, past almond and olive trees, cork oaks, red rocks – just beautiful mediterranean vegetation The lagoon was dried up … and so was the next one The…

It was great to stay in the delta for the night We saw quite a lot of birds We were lucky to see a kingfisher The delta was very dry. The fields will only be flooded again in March, ready for the rice planting. This house for example was surrounded by water last time we…