Mostly Spain 2023 - Getting Settled In El Campello

 Hola from El Campello, Spain (pronounced Camp Ai Yo). 

 

This is a former fishing port turned beach town just to the north of Alicante in the Valencia province of Spain. We are still on our mission to find a place where we would be comfortable staying for long periods of time. 

 

From our experiment in Cefalú, Sicily, we know we want to be on the coast, where we can see and hear the water. We want to be in a place where we can walk to stores, shops, and restaurants. We want to have public transportation available to us and have access to trains and planes. 

No matter where we go when we travel, we spend the first few days trying to make the place 'ours'. By that I mean we try to figure out it's individuality, determine how we are going to fit into that reality, and then come up with our own particular pattern where we enjoy our life in that new culture. So far here in El Campello, it is all going very smoothly. 

In the two days we've been here, we've found the two supermarkets in walking distance and cataloged what they have in each. We've found a hardware store where we bought a rubber mat for the shower as it was slippery and dangerous. We found a sporting goods store to get a yoga mat. The city is pretty cosmopolitan. We've found Donner Kebob, Chinese, Italian, Indian, not to mention all the Spanish places. We have two Rotisserie Chicken places in walking distance. Gelato places, tapas bars, burger joints, all very close. We found the tram to take us into the city or further up the coast. 

We are just starting figuring out the photography pattern. That will be revealed in future posts. The apartment itself has the primary benefit of the view and the ability to be open air and let in the sound of the ocean and the breeze. We are at a perfect time of the year when things are just warming up but there really are not many people. 

Here are some pictures I took early this morning from our apartment. 

Wife working diligently at something at her digital nomad location in El Campello

For our first dining out experience in El Campello we HAD TO DO SOMETHING TOTALLY AND TRADITIONALLY SPANISH

Or maybe not. Maybe it was something totally and traditionally de-I and Wife...as in we will get Donner Kebob wherever we can find it!