Next stop, Santa Pola, close to Alicante.
Some guy on Facebook was looking for help with a campervan conversion, which I thought might be fun. Technically this is a work exchange, not volunteering, but the great unwashed masses can’t seem to differentiate so I’ll go with the vernacular. Anyway the deal is you help somebody out typically 25 hours a week and they provide food and accommodation.
Obviously that’s a pretty crappy deal for me because I don’t need accommodation, but I thought it might be nice to have a bit of company and see what I could learn from helping with his van project. It doesn’t make sense financially, but money is just a tool to help us have the life we want and be the person we want to be. If I can make a new friend and learn some skills then there’s no problem.
Unfortunately, I’d picked a guy who has a pretty strange way of doing things. He’s bought several crappy old vans and doesn’t have any useful skills to do anything with them, so he was pretty reliant on me. In fact he kept disappearing to do important things like meet a friend for coffee, leaving me to do the actual work. And he was a lousy cook!
Needless to say, I didn’t stay long. I took the opportunity to do my washing and luxuriate in a shower, but I wasn’t having fun or learning anything, so there was no point staying.
I did however find a nice beach outside the town. Nice clean sand, and a big empty car park. Might have to stay a few days!