7th June

A suitably lazy Sunday start before getting ready to go out. We decided to drive into the Jalon Valley to a place called Alcalali.

This takes us through Jalon itself where we have been to the Saturday Flea Market. We Spend a bit of time driving through the tiny streets of Alcalali before deciding to drive on to Parcent, thinking we have never been there before. Only to realize when we get there that this is where our neighbour Keith brought us for paella with his Sunday lunch group a few years back. A lunch that turned onto an almost unpleasant ‘let’s knock politicians especially Labour ones’ session. The up side being that it has meant that we haven’t been asked to join that group again.

So we had a wander around, though there’s not much to see except where to get lunch. We looked at L’Era where we had the paella before but it looked like a private Christening party by the look of the cake in the centre of the room with a huge, white, plastic Stork on it. In the end we chose a beautiful hall-like building with a bar near the door and a full procenium arch (albeit small) and stage. The tiles around the Walls were beautiful. The staff were helpful and we both enjoyed our choices from the menu del dias at ‘‚¬11 each. It was the Co-op Agricola ‘El Progres’. We are starting to find our own watering holes and lunch venues at last.

After returning home to charge phones we took ‘a promenade’ in the eveming sun along the seafront before abusing the Hotel Diamonte Beach’s WiFi over a few. Another great Sunday.