Day 22 – Villajoyosa
We recently run out of the small dog biscuit that the b oystering enjoy when at home. Tina thought that we had a bag in the ‘van but of course we didn’t so today we went to find the Pets store we spotted yesterday when shopping at Carrefour. Of course they didn’t have the same make but eventually we chose a small bag that we thought they might enjoy. We would go back and get more if they did eventually like them.
We then wanted to give the dogs a run on the beach so I set the navigation on my phone and we went off searching for a beach nearby. This was in the west of Benidorm but did not allow dogs onto the sand so we decided to try somewhere closer to the campsite.
On the way back we took a detour to have a look at another campsite called ‘El Torres Camping’. The campsite is close to the beach and so we decided to have a stroll. We soon came across a couple feeding some wild cats. They visit every day to feed approximately 12 wild cats that have been abandoned. They pay for this out of their own pocket and have some funds from a charity. Some of the cats had been neutered and the vet bills paid for out of their pensions. Some were healthy but one or two were quite poorly. They described how there were other colonies of wild cats all over Benidorm that they try to support. Tina dropped some money in the collection tin.
We had a lovely walk along the paved walkway but again the beach was off limits to the dogs. This campsite would have been preferable to where we currently are as it provides a better dog walking facility.
We watched our series and later I listened to the AFC Bournemouth match against Chelsea. I was fully expecting that we would get stuffed as we had a couple of key players out injured however as the match got into the second half I couldn’t believe it…we took the lead. Eventually the final score was 4-0 to Bournemouth … an excellent result.
Whilst Tina was in bed she called out to ask if we could take a cat home. She has a good heart but I explained that this would be impossible. They are wild cats and besides the issue with pet passports and rabies injections they would probably not even get in the vehicle let alone travel the 1000+ miles home. She was of course disappointed but understood. Bless her!!
We are off to the market in the morning so need to get up a little earlier …