Alfas Del Pi

We woke up at the ungodly hour of 6am this fine January the 10th day (My mom asked me to start including some dates to better track our adventures). Julie bought me a coffee from the gas station before we headed out at 7am and it was pretty awful. We had a big drive ahead of us and we both wanted to arrive at the Alfas Del Pi camping spot around noon. The sun wasn’t up for the first two hours of our drive (which didn’t help with the waking up process) so we didn’t see much of the passing scenery. Our second gas up of the day provided us with something unique, or at least to us. Julie was looking to get me some coffee and was unable to locate any at the gas station, until she saw these small plastic cups (about the size of a can of pop). She bought one cappuccino and one hot chocolate. What made this unique to us, was how you prepared them. They start off room temperature, you press the bottom in and crush what feels like stones and then shake it vigorously for 30 seconds, (if you can hold the cup that long, it gets piping hot) then voila, its ready to drink. They weren’t bad, but like everything in Europe, we didn’t get a whole lot for our money. We were told by John and Linda to avoid Benidorm as it’s filled with skyscrapers but they suggested a town near it called Alfas Del Pi where they stayed for their Christmas Holidays. The site is brand new and offers all the amenities you need, even daily bread service, for a reasonable cost of 10 euros per day. What really sold it for us though, was the free WiFi that was also available at the campsite. Julie and I were both extremely tired when we arrived that it took me four tries to switch the electrical plug for our van before I got it right and Julie nodded off twice in the van, the first time was by mistake. It was a leisurely start the next day as we made our way to Peniscola, we stayed in a parking lot for campervans, one that was on the way to Benicarlo.