Another Day At The Beach

Well, it seems that the school breakup has badly effected the amount of space available for us at the beach. We went to both Chipiona and Valdelagrana (El Puerto de Santa Maria) and they were jam packed.

You could hardly put a pin between the Sombrillas (Beach Brollies).

Tom got into the water as quickly as possible, and was out again and playing in the sand in no time. Ok, you can't see the crowds in this photo, but they were there, I promise.



Ollie was equally quick into the water, and came out cold.



Unfortunately, Chipiona, is a bit like Whitsands, nowhere to go when the tide comes in. When it did, we packed up and moved on to Valdelagrana.

Before we left we saw this guy selling Camarones out of a basket. Camarones are tiny shrimps which you can cook with or eat as a savoury snack, a bit like peanuts only with more legs.




The wind was blowing like hell, and the sand is very fine at Valdelagrana, so we all got a good sand-blasting! Despite the wind it was lovely and warm and Tom spent ages in the water, fighting the waves and building confidence. Ollie mostly sat and ate Pipas (unshelled, salted sunflower seeds) and biscuits.

I took the boys for a walk along the Promenade to give Bi a break (Ollie had sand in his eyes most of the time, and didn't like it, naturally). No sand on the Promenade though, and he soon cheered up..



We didn't leave the beach until about 9.00, and it was still hot! We ate half a Watermelon between us on the Promenade, jumped in the Jalopy and sped home (a moderate, fuel efficient sped that is).

One last photo of the three of them. Ollie on the left, Bianca in the middle and Tom on the right...




More later,

Nick