The Cold Light of Day

The sun has been out all week so we decided to visit Granadella which is a one street fishing village set in a pretty cove just south of Cape Nao (the easternmost point of mainland Spain). From our place northwards there are endless sandy beaches but south of Denia it is mostly cliffs and coves until the beaches start again south of Moraira and on to Benidorm.  Granadella is 45 minutes from home according to the Tom-Tom we have just bought to guide us on next week's long distance drive back to London.

The road to the village winds down from the cliff above through pine forest to the cove which has a small beach and three restaurants. During the summer months the car park is always completely full but at the end of March there is plenty of room.

It turns out that since last summer the cove has had some famous visitors in the form of film stars Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver who were here with the rest of the cast to film The Cold Light of Day, that premieres later this year. According to the local newspaper Mr Willis had his own mobile changing room at the beach, no doubt complete with star on the door and those lightbulbs they have around the mirror. We just changed for our walk in the car park and set off without the help of a make-up artist or a body double.

Apparently the entire family of the film's lead character gets kidnapped and it sounds like he generally had a bad day here.  Thankfully our experience was very different, but having read about the film we were on our guard for secret agents as we made our way along the cliff top walk to the ruined castle. You can't be too careful these days but the people following us turned out merely to be retired Germans.

Safely back at the cove we sat outside Restaurant Sur in the rather warm light of lunchtime.  The waiter insisted on speaking to us in English - presumably believing us to be celebrities. His English was rather better than the translation on the menu which offered us, among other things, "some careful prostrated domestic".

We enjoyed a superb mixed fish grill - they send out their own fishing boat and you get whatever they catch - and some wonderful home made ice cream before the Tom-Tom guided us home. Well, most of the way home as the road to our house appears not to exist on the system (it was new five years ago).  At least we know that if the special agents follow us from Granadella, they won't find us with their GPS!