We had a day trip up the coast to see Mum and Dad who are staying just outside Benidorm. Having heard of it’s notoriety, we agreed to have lunch there if only to see what all the fuss was about. We were not disappointed. We walked past Benidorm Palace (an entertainment centre) and noticed that each hotel had a line of single seater and two seater mobility scooters lined up outside!

Each shop front was either a takeaway of some sort, a restaurant of every variety you could imagine or a shop selling clothing (perfect for a hot sunny day and not appropriate for a cool gloomy December afternoon), junk tat (such as magnets, postcards and Benidorm mugs) and advertising any British product you could think of (Sun and Daily Mail newspapers, Tetley Tea, Nescafe coffee etc.) and obviously need abroad!

Walking past Benidorm Palace

Benidorm seafront

Below the high rise apartments are the usual McDonalds and Burger King, fish and chip shops, the Coach and Horses pubs and flashing decoration wrapped palm trees. An odd combination!

Contemplating the seafront!

Apparently the furthest two blocks, build recently, are to be pulled down as the planning department have established that the tower blocks were built 6 inches out of their agreed position!

We had a lovely day out and a Chinese meal, met a few neighbours on the site mum and Dad were on, and headed back to our site in the evening.’,