Day 7 - Mission Accomplished

First a trip into Javea to collect Eunice's winnings. Euromillions lottery fever had struck our group on hearing that the jackpot had reached more than €100,000,000 and we splashed out a week's spends on 4 lottery tickets.  

Tensions were running high as we checked the numbers on Saturday morning to find we had a winner!  Yippee, but would it be enough for us all to give up work and live the life of luxury. 

The numbers were typed into the prize calculator on the Euromillions web page and there it was - €9!  Well not enough to retire on, but enough for coffee later that afternoon, so a result anyway.

Although the weather was looking a little dodgy (only 20 deg and a little like rain) we decided to tough it out and headed off to Granadier to do the castle walk that we'd abandoned on

 Friday. 

By the time we arrived, the weather had taken a turn for the better and 

we set off on the first part of the climb in sunshine.

The leaflet mentioned that there were a couple of difficult sections but as you will see from the photos these involved a certain amount of serious  mountaineering, hanging onto chains for dear life whilst hanging over the cliff edge.  

We all survived though and as our goal came into sight it was obvious that it had all been worth it.  

The castle itself was mostly in ruins having been all but destroyed by the British (hooray) in the

Napoleonic wars - but the views were magnificent.  

There was also a fine selection of wild flowers, far too many for the blog, I'll have to think of another way to get those to Tony.

The return journey was accomplished with relative ease now that we were hardened climbers, but refreshments were needed and these were taken in the cafe/restaurant which in Grenadier itself which has fabulous views across the cove.

Another cup of coffee and soup/sandwiches were taken back in javea outside Atica (I think that's how it's spelt) which also has great views out to sea.  

This was followed by a short walk into town to look at the newest church in Javea which (I believe) is dedicated to seamen.  

The ceiling (which was a bit difficult to photograph due to the lack of light) is built in wood in the shape of the hull of a boat and you'll see from the photograph that did turn out, the outside also has a nautical theme.

For dinner (or tea depending where you come from) we went out to a retaurant located at the foot of Montgo (Nina / Richard I've forgotten the name - can you help out?) where we had another superb meal.  The food in this part of Spain is so good and fantastic value

 for money, but it doesn't help the waistline ....