That wasn't too difficult, it was very straightforward. Rented the car for the
week 150 euros and it's full
of petrol bring it back full and that's it.
It's another beautiful day in Javea, the sun is shining there's not a cloud in
the sky and a apparently is going to get up to around about 18 degrees today
which is fantastic. it's just my kind of weather. We're taking a bit of a walk
this morning, it's about a 25 minute walk. We're heading down to a car rental place.
And so by renting the car what that will allow us to do is, it will allow us to go
out to a lot of different locations and record a lot more footage in a shorter
time frame, because walking everywhere takes an awful lot of time. Then we
can then sit down in the apartment for two or three days and really put our
noses to the grindstone. One of the first things we did with our rental car was to
take the 30 minute drive inland to explore the Las Calaveras cave which
has evidence of human use as far back as 50,000 years ago. My origins date
back 135,000 years to the Cretaceous period, when the
planet was inhabited by marine and winged reptiles,
small mammals and birds with beaks which lived in the dense forests of a
temperate climate. The forests consisted of tall willows and oaks. Humidity
levels were high, owing to the fact that global warming was far greater than
today because of the greenhouse effect. reinforced as well by the high level of
methane which was concentrated in the atmosphere.
This is as far as you can walk in the cave, we come up to this metal gate and
it just drops off into quite a deep chasm and you can hear water that's
running down through the rocks and the the chasm apparently is flooded and this
is also where the town of bendy leg as I like to call it gets its water supply
still. So many thousands of years ago people were using this cave for shelter
and a drinking water source and it's still being used today as a drinking
water source for a local town of bendy leg.
So how was that intrepid explorer? That's pretty fabulous. yeah it's
really interesting, there's more to it than I thought. I thought it was just going to be
a hole in the wall. There was one large area where they drained the pond
and filled it in. It would've been nice to see the pond with a bridge over it.
Stopping to smell the roses is one of the many reasons why we chose this
radical change in lifestyle, but visiting all of these exciting new places wasn't
getting us any closer to buying a yacht. So we got a list of marinas together
and headed north to check them out. What are you doing Baz?
We're heading north to look at some marinas and look at yachts, so time to
dig through this box of stuff because in here are two things. One is the sat nav and
the other thing is a dive torch. What's the torch for? Well when we look at a boat
one of the things we're going to be doing is poking our heads and hands into
all the nooks and crannies and so you need one of these things to check that.
Basically we're looking in the dark places
for all the bad stuff. Alright.
One of the reasons we hired the car was to get the chance to travel to as many
marinas within a days driving distance and talk to as many salespeople as
possible. We've been to a few places, a lot of them are really
small and don't have any sales offices and we've just come from the the main
big marina in Valencia, which is huge and has got lots of boats. We found one sales
office. Yeah nice guy Emilio. Yeah he was a nice guy, but I was very disappointed
in the fact that he didn't immediately say oh yes I have three that will suit
you, come and have a look. So it was disappointing. So we've got, because
we're Bulldogs and we don't let go, we've got there's a couple more
marinas north of here, but we're just going to try one more north of here and
if that pans out to be the same as the ones we've visited so far coming up from
the South, what we're going to do is we're going to get back to Javea, back
to our apartment, back to our electronic devices to start shooting out a load of
emails to all of the online agencies, saying hey these are our requirements
what have you got and make them do the legwork for us.
Well we meant to go to one restaurant called Cajita Azul, but he has 80 people
coming in tonight, it was just him in there in the kitchen,
so we got kicked out of there and we wandered through a few alleyways and
found this place here called Palau de Javea. So how's the wine? Very
nice, Spanish table wine, you can't go wrong. Yeah so um we've ordered some
tapas. Yes I'm having cheese with walnuts and raisins and you're having
patatas bravas, spicy potatoes and then
you're having duck and I'm having the lamb.
We just had the best evening out in Javea. Baz and I went out for a meal, we
thought we'd just go because we were celebrating passing our sailing exams
and becoming day skippers and we had a fantastic meal and then when we were
coming home we met this group of people all dressed in black and white and
a couple of them went high five and they said how would you like to come to a
party? It's a combined hen and stag party! We went yeah.
Well that was totally random! We had a quiet Saturday night in a very nice
restaurant with some really good food and we bumped into some guys as we
turned a corner. And I gave him a high-five. And they invited us to a party.
Kind of like a combined stag party and hen party. And he said come to the party,
so we did. Very nice, wonderful people, yeah so grateful. So now as old fogies
are gonna go home and leave the young kids to party. It's all good... Saturday
night in Javea.
It's a boat called Arse! Can you imagine that on the radio?
You know... Valencia port control. Valencia port control.
This is sailing vessel Arse. Sailing vessel Arse. Over.