Valencia, Spain - change in the weather.

It was a like a switch got turned on and Spain decided to give me lovely weather for my last week

 

The kind of weather where

I turned the heat off and left the balcony door open.

The kind of weather where the walk to the grocery store (just getting milk, I need to try and finish the food in the house) turned into

a walk on the beach.

This machine was 

sifting through the sand and picking up the stones.

They are nice, sand and sea

smoothed stones, that are not a hardship to walk on in bare feet.

But they take their beach seriously here, so they get piled up, out of the way of the 

beach walkers.

The beautiful weather has coincided with the Fallas Festival so there are a lot more people around

enjoying it.

Some of the pipes, that had been laid out on the beach, have been towed out and this boat has turned up to use them to pump sand up on to the beach.

The Bonny River (on my marine app) has been long awaited. There was a lot of consternation on Facebook as to whether she would arrive in time to pump sand before the tourists arrived. The work is being done on the next beach North. I am on Canet beach and the next one is Almarda (they are actually one long continuous beach)

They are also putting in more accessible pathways. These are not wood, some kind of plastic (hopefully recycled).

There are a few of these kiosks scattered along the passieg and I have been walking past them without paying any attention for the last 9 weeks. They have current info (weather etc) on them as well as advertising

but they are also a wifi hotspot and have a phone with emergency numbers listed.

I woke up one morning to the sound of a chain saw.

They were trimming the palm trees in front of the apartment.

The most recent painting.

These 3 are being left for my landlord to use in the apartment (his request after I sent him a picture of the first of my paintings)