A stroll to Alcafar - and what a delight

Andrew has of course walked to the next village from our hotel but today was the first time I ventured there with him.  To my surprise, it was a very easy walk across some rocky beach terrain and the reward was a wonderful sheltered bay where the water was balmy.

Our beach is quite exposed and often the waves can be a little rough.  But at Alcafar the water is always very calm as the bay is long and sheltered.

There is a sandy beach at the end of the bay but people seem to prefer the ladder into the water at the rocky end.

The locals obviously greatly favour this sheltered little haven to have their swim.  Now that I have discovered its proximity to us we will go there most days that we have left of this lovely holiday.  The hotel pool is very nice but the water is pretty cold.  The sea is much warmer.

One of our very nice waiters at the hotel is, in my opinion, a spitting image of former US President Barack Obama.  When I told him this, he said many people have commented with the same view.  I wonder if others agree?

Our hotel with a tiny me on the balcony.

A closer shot.  Our current room is lovely and sunny.  We changed rooms, as the first one was at the back of the hotel, and it was dark and musty.  This one is a delight.  We are enjoying it twice as much as we would have if we had not had the experience of the dark side first where we had trouble getting anything dry on the balcony.