Did see Simon and Lucy as Simon woke us up to say that they were here and weren't burglars at 2am! I went to say hello and chat for a while. We all retired at 3am. Woke at 10ish and sat chatting and drinking coffee, so good to see them both.  We all went into Nerja for lunch at a really good Tapas bar that Lucy knew. Had some wine and traditional lemonade stuff that Simon ordered {not sangria} We dropped Simon and Lucy back at the villa and headed off as we have a long way to drive. Hopefully we should reach the Valencia area, roughly halfway to Barcelona. It is a lovely drive all through the mountains, mainly using the coast road, which is extremely pretty.

Andrew drove till 9pm with one coffee stop till we reached Gandia, where we booked into  Hotel Cibeles Playa for the night, a nice looking place with terraces in terracotta tiling with blue glass railings. We dumped our stuff then went to find food. A local Italian restaurant appealed, traditional wood smoked pizza and a peppered steak, good rioja, called La Mancha with a brandy and coffee to round it all off. Definitely time for bed, it's surprisingly tiring sitting in a car all day, even if you are not doing the driving.