Saturday 27th February – Saturday 6th March
A text message from England to say that friends of Graham’s brother Pat would be staying on a campsite in La Manga decided us to make this our next stop. This also gave us the opportunity to discover more about what was for us the new phenomenon of a ‘Camping and Caravan Club rally’. By joining a rally members of the club get preferential rates on pitches pre-booked for stretches of several months out of season. Almost as if on a holiday camp you can then opt to join in with the many activities stewards then organize for the rally campers. Many people go for the duration of the rally and do so year in year out, meeting up with friends made and joining in with all activities (visits, quizzes, meals, dances, classes, sports etc.). Others like us just join for a shorter period, benefit from the good rates and join in with some or none of the events on offer.
Finding people if slightly older than us on average, as ever helpful and welcoming, we resolved to get as involved as a 6 month old baby permits. This meant a slightly dodgy yoga class for Annie and a Pictionary type quiz entry for us all. Each team was given the name of a pub which had to be drawn represented in pictures then stuck to the front of the caravan. Over the course of a few days you then had to go round to the other caravans/motor-homes and guess their pub. Graham was chief sketcher; Annie neatened the drawing, while Krista got us an extension on the entry dead-line and charmed the other participants to give us lots of extra clues. Despite these we didn’t manage to win the €8 first prize, but we did get the €3 prize for best drawing!
Pleased with our success, the quiz also gave Graham the perfect opportunity to get a good look through the windows of several motor-homes (see ‘Hymer-envy ‘ as mentioned previously). He also wangled us a visit to another rallier’s Rapido – the French equivalent to the German Hymer. Although we of course love our modest Bailey Ranger Caravan, these things are in another league and we could imagine finding it very comfortable indeed!
We met up with Pat's friend's Bill and Val towards the end of our week when they arrived for some wind-surfing. La Manga is a perfect spot for this and Bill and Val are very good. They were also very good at Rummi-kub as they proved during the enjoyable evening we spent playing with them. We clinked our glasses to Pat and Sue over an extremely good bottle of wine from the local Aldi - a real bargain at 0,89 euros - and all resolved to hurry back there to make a stock before the secret got around the campsite.
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