First time needing to fill the rental car. Big truck in the way at the pump, so went to the next one. Could not figure out payment system, but a nice man helped us with the pre-pay. Gracias, gracias…  and thank goodness gasóleo nozzles are the wrong size for gasolina cars. Switched back to first (gasolina) pump. Different nice man helped here, but this pump wouldn’t work even then. Woman from office came out and fixed it.

Now have, surprise, two identical €60 charges on the credit card. As travel screw ups go, pretty minimal.

And so to the coast and Gandia – or actually the satellite community of Daimus, which was probably once a charming fishing village but is now part of the solid cliff of white hotels and apartment buildings that line the Spanish coast from Barcelona to the Portuguese border so that people like me can drink English beer and end up looking like a lobster.