Day 31 - Mad Mary has Nicked OUR Spot

We gave ourselves a well earned lie-in with the intention of booking some accommodation in or near Lekeitio, Spain for the last few nights of our trip. This was proving trickier than it really should be, because either the accommodation available was too expensive for what you got or it was too far from Lekeitio.

After a lot of head scratching, I came up with the brainwave of googling campsites in the region. We found one, but couldn’t establish if the they had any availability on their website. In the end I took the bull by the horns and rang the campsite direct using my best Spanish lingo. The bottom line is that we are now camping for our last 5 nights in Spain for a fraction of the cost of having a proper roof over our heads. We celebrated with a bowl of Weetabix.

We drove out to the beach & could not believe that Mad Mary was face down in the sand in OUR actual spot on the beach. We bottled it & stopped short so that there were people between us and Mad Mary. I won’t go on any more about Mad Mary, but suffice to say she was up to her same antics of wandering around the beach naked or in a pair of dirty grey knickers. She was still there when we left the beach at 6pm.

We returned to our apartment, got ourselves sorted out & had a bottle of rose wine on the balcony, Jackie applied mousse to my hair. We then went to dinner at the restaurant opposite, which was packed with diners. Jackie ordered the grilled mackerel, which was 2 whole fish & I ordered the pork and pickles again . We had another litre of house red and a sparkling water.

The food was fantastic, but the waiter was a miserable c*nt, so he didn’t get a tip.

Note : We gave noticed that customer service in Portugal has been pretty diabolical compared to Northern Spain.
I would however say that the beaches on the Atlantic coast of Portugal have been pristine. Today at Odeceixe, they even had complimentary conical ashtrays at the entrance to the beach so that those disgusting smokers don’t discard their cigarettes in the sand. Jackie stole one.

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