Monday 23rd January
We decided to have a quiet day now all our visitors have gone. The sun shone though it was still
chilly. I caught up with the blog – I am
now up to date and also with emails. We
have now planned our journey home and as there were originally two different
ones, both with hotels booked, I needed to cancel some of them.
We went to Blue Sea Villas, who this apartment is booked through, and
arranged to leave on Sunday instead of Saturday – well we were a day late
getting here. It was then up to Comsum,
the supermarket in the Parque Commercial, where they sell a litre of Gordon’s
gin for €11 which is about half of the price in England (when it’s not on
special offer). I bought 2 bottles –
making 3 in total to go home! Richard
does like his gin!
On our way back to the apartment we went up to La Parata and when I say
up I mean up! The hill up is very steep
and I would imagine way beyond the normal person’s capability to walk up! Back in the early 1980s my mother and step-father,
Richard (known as UR to save complications) used to stay in a villa up
there. It belonged to someone that UR
worked with. Back then, Mojacar Playa
didn’t really exist – there were just a few hotels and not much else. La Parata wasn’t very big either but now
there are lots of expensive villas up there and we have been told that many of
the owners are very wealthy and include a couple of top footballers. The letting agencies have the odd one or two
up there. UR had given me directions of
where Villa Binnie was but I’m not sure that we found it as I couldn’t find a
name on the one we thought it was.
Back at the apartment I cooked roast pork and roasted vegetables. However I forgot that a non-fan oven works
differently and we ended up with uncooked pork and burnt vegetables! The apartment smelt of burnt food all
evening!
I thought I would add some statistics about Mojacar – well this is for
a normal year!
•
It has more than 3000 hours of sun per year.
•
Rainfall is seldom and weak, with an average
rainfall of 200mm per year.
•
The average yearly temperature is around 20 °C.
Winter is normally mild. Mojácar is classified as being in the 11 climate zone
(the highest climate zone) that means the temperature in Mojácar is never lower
than 4 °C.
•
The average temperature in winter varies between
10 °C and 18 °C.
•
The average temperature in summer varies between
26 °C and 32 °C.
Poor Mojacar had real serious rain in September, November and
December. I took this article from the
Euro News
In the aftermath of the torrential rainstorm that battered Mojacar, a
massive effort has been made to reinstate some semblance of normality to the
promenade of Mojacar Playa. Thursday’s
storms caused flooding and electricity in the area was severely affected with
Mojacar Pueblo and The Parque Comercial intermittently cutting out until 9am.
The destruction of general water pipes on Mojacar Playa and surrounding areas
left a large number of residents without mains water for almost two days. Many houses suffered considerable damage with
outside walls collapsing and serious flooding. Residents had to resort to using
water from private swimming pools in order to be able to start the clear-up.
I also found this on The Watchers
Although initially it appeared there were no fatalities in the
province, the body of a 65-year-old man from Bédar was found on Tuesday, after
he went missing after leaving a bar in the town in heavy rains on Saturday.
Thank goodness we didn’t arrive until January!
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