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Grafitti, Spanish style

Day in Denia

right at the end of the road ,south of Denia,from here it would be a long , hard walk to Xabia

Mum & Dad

I never call them that, Bebeir

& Leen

Happy Birthday Jacqui.....21 today

So we go out for dinner at Granadella ( the beach we snorkelled at, maybe we get to eat the fish we saw a few days ago :-)

View from the our table at the restaurant

Dam at Guadalest

The clouds seem to be sparing the dam in the valley, so it's still nice for a swim

loving the colour of the water

Jac's laps it up

The water's edge was muddy , so we thought we'd smear ourselves and have a little mud treatment, bad mistake, when we washed it off , it felt like bits of fibre glass stuck in our skin, so all afternoon it was very annoying, but fine again the next day

our little beach there , we had to ourselves

driving back now, and leaving the dam , guadalest and clouds behind

was a pretty steep drive up the mountain, and had to stop the car for about 20 minutes, as it loked like it was about to overheat

Clouds are rolling in

And for this time of the year, that's a bit off

looks awesome, we are quite a way up in the mountains

So we are actually above some of the clouds

We head down to check out the dam

Guadalest Castle

this is what it used to look like, just before Spain became a tourist attraction

View of the dam in the valley from the Corduna house

Going up to check the ruins of the actual castle

Can you imagine building here ?

And right at the top there is a cemetry, we are some 20-30 kms inland and at Benidorm a long long time ago, there was a shipwreck with knights of malta on board, some of which died in the shipwreck, and they were then brought all the way up here in the hills to be buried, and I'm curious as to why they lugged a dead body for 30kms into the hils to be buried here

Just driving through the countryside

Love the light,I could pretend I took this pic in the lateafternoon in Hollywood hills, and you would believe me

and we stumble upon the castle at Guadalest

pretty little place with the last rays of light streaming through the hills

Guadalest is built on top of this little rocky outcrop

Jacqui shows us how the woman of the town used to do the washing

So we decided to stay for the night

view from our little apartment we rented

Jac's 8 dive

To counter balance the walking on water

River wasn't enough , so we head to the pool

We had our car parked at a cafe with a pool ,so.....this one is for you Imelda Matt

Jac's has a go as well, but it's more like walking on water