We wake to partly cloudy skies as the waves are still crashing in and enjoy a fat-boy breakfast before setting off just before midday.

Our drive takes us through Gandia, Denia and Xabia with a variety of scrubby hillsides, limestone outcrops and orange and lemon plantations.

We stop in Denia for a quick cup of soup before picking up the route from the 'Back Roads of Spain' book. Probably one of our hairiest rides yet as the road swoops around the Cata de Gorgos with limestone bulges on hairpin bends and enormous drops beyond the thin railing. Near Calpe we see a huge rock similar to Gibraltar. All around are fruit plantations on steep terraces; oranges, lemons and quamquats. Huge poly-domes cover the terraces causing Ali and Grete to remark at the same time that it looks like the Eden Poject.

The last stretch is equally windy over the hills looking towards Benidorm. The hillsides are covered in pastel coloured villas, many no doubt owned by 'arry or Tony from 'Sarf London'.

We reach our passion, Museo de Vehiculos Historicos in Valle de Guadalest www.museovehiculosguadalest.com

As well as the museum there is a restaurant [both closed today] and a local produce store which is open. We buy a few things from the huge range of goodies; preserves, wines, pottery, nuts and fruit. We decide to see the museum in the morning, try lunch then drive an hour and a half to Alicante, so we look up possible sites and Ali rings to check availability.

Grete cooks salmon and Mediterranean vegetables for dinner.