Day 36 – Benicarlo
Horrenda Diem (latin for Horrendous day) best describes our day…
We packed up this morning with no issues and pulled down to reception where we paid our electricity bill.. €7.20 for the 4 weeks we have been at Alicante Imperium. Our heating was on LPG and we had 4KW of electric included in the price. I thought how well we had done.
We made good time travelling on the toll motorway and just over half way we stopped for a break and give the ‘boys’ an opportunity to relieve themselves. I remembered that we should look out our paperwork and in particular the voucher for the next site. On closer inspection ….where are our passports!!! We looked all around the vehicle and searched in the caravan and could not find them. Conclusion is we must have left them in reception at the last site. We decided that we should press on and give the site a call when we arrive at our destination.
In Benicarló the reception were able to call the Villajoyosa site and ask them to search and call us back. We arranged to go back this evening and get the verdict from the phone call. We asked to be closer to the beach which means it is closer for the dog walk. They placed us on one of the premier pitches…not sure if there is a price difference!
We drove around to the pitch and disconnected and used the motor mover to place the ‘van on the pitch. Next we needed to level it…where is the remote control! No sign of it in its usual place. Once again we searched and couldn’t find it so we went to plan B. There is a wired solution we could use.
We are now set up but worried insanely about our passports. The remote can be replaced but without the passports how can we get home? We gave he friends we had made a call back at the site to go and ask at reception and see if I had left the remote behind. They reported back that they had no luck. After some research it seems we can organise emergency travel documents which take about 2 working days and would need to be picked up in Barcelona. The cost £100 each. OUCH.
We went up to reception and that had heard from Villajoyosa and they did not have our passports. Tina persuaded me that we should eat in the on-site restaurant. It was pie night. I had the Chicken & Mushroom whereas Tina had a steak. It was good to relax even though we are still worried. We will have to take the caravan and vehicle apart tomorrow and if not successful will have to apply on-line for the emergency documents.
Back to the van and soon we had settled for the night. We will report tomorrow if we are successful in our search.