Calp to Altea from free to 25€ /night

Moved 11K down the coast in search of hot water and electricity as well as little less full on & built up.

Had a great last dinner in the street - all the best of wild camping cuisine....

Thanks to Rough Guide found Altea with a huge camp site close to a pebble beach v similar to Sandgate! From the beach had a clear view across the bay to Calp with that distinguishing rocky out crop. 

Altea seems to be an idle bid way between Calp and Benidorm - the latter is a 1.5€ bus ride in the number 10 so I'm told. 

Bilboa & the Guggenheim

Decided we'd spend this Christmas in Spain and tick off some Bucket list Items The Prado in Madrid & The Alhambra in Granada.

The first surprise on the trip, apart from the very pleasant ferry trip across the Bay of Biscay, was the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa. I was taken aback. The cynic in me had always considered this a bit of post modernist  hype summed up in works of Jeff Koon. 

I was wrong! The building and its art where pure WTF art. Everything about the building was extraordinary and seemed to work so well with Koon's works. 

Inside was just as WTF with huge spaces for some great art from Rothko, Warhol and many other international Abstract Expeessionists & Pop Artists including a few local artist. 

The Guggenheim in Bilboa with its Origins in The New York version proves to me Musuem brands such as  British Museum & The Louvre can export their brand whilst maintaining their integrity. 

....another pleasant surprise was the 

Making Africa exhibition a celebration of African Art & Design. 

A interesting contrast to the British Library's West Africa Word Symbol Song...

All in All very much enjoyed the visit to

Bilboa!