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Hi Optimist
Thanks for your reply before our trip last week. We took really pot luck (and your advice) and headed north after a couple of nights in Alicante. We had a nice trip but didn’t get so far north as we had intended, mainly because we got fed up with unloading/loading the car at every overnight stop. We found the Parador in Lavea gave us all we were after, a nice room with balcony overlooking a lovely garden with good beach-side walks for exercise. Very pleasantly surprised by the pretty countryside, with more greenery than we had expected, the roads too, as you said, were in very good order and a pleasure to drive in our hired Fiesta. A nice little car incidentally, except that I was plagued with gas pains that I can only attribute to the weird sitting position, this is also part of the reason we didn’t do the miles we had intended. We were lucky with the weather too, so all in all, a good break.
The only negative that always strikes me with Spain is the absolute refusal by the Spanish to communicate in anything but Spanish. It’s crazy, even staff in 4 and 5 star hotels refuse to understand simple things like room numbers, drinks and menu items in anything but Spanish. I tried in both English and French but no, hopeless. Reception staff, maybe, but waiters etc. nope.
They want (and need) our tourist Euros, but not us it seems…
How do you get on living there? Do you you speak Spanish? If so, are you accepted as part of the community?
All the best, Bill
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