It was a surprise to see a moving staircase in Villajoyosa. At first, I thought it was just a silly thing! Can't people use just the regular stairs? Why do we need this escalator?
Soon we will rely on moving staircases, elevators, vehicles, and all kinds of stuff that make our walks easier but then we will become lazy. That was my initial thought... Probably because I was walking downstairs in that park. You see how easy it is?
We see the seashore, the sandy beach, the sun. It is so effortless to walk toward that scene. But once again, if I turn back I see another escalator.
Funnily, I also used it when we finished our walk by the seashore, and then I was happy and saw its benefits. 😂 Every path leads to a chocolate shop like this moving staircase does haha. But first, before we got that sweet choco reward we took a little walk.
Also, I could confirm that every path leads to cats, at least it happens to me. We arrived with our walk close to the port and there we found ourselves in a feline kingdom. At our place, it is the seagulls that wait for the fish. Here, it seems that the cats eat what the fishermen bring from the sea.
I took a photo of this tree in the same area, close to the port. The tree looked crooked as if was dancing a funny choreography; consequently, the concrete bench had its comment on that dance. Do you know what it said? You could zoom in on the photo and try to read it, but wait, I will bring it from a different angle.
Holala.
Was it meant to be Oh là là? Spanish-speaking Hivers - does this holala mean something in Spanish? Could the case that the person who wrote it accidentally added another la, after the already written hola?
Not so far from this dancing tree and speaking bench, I found a nice surprise. Now I could exclaim a real Oh là là! A cuddly cat!
I tried to take a selfie with him, though it was almost impossible! When cats like this start to cuddle, it is a difficult task to catch a moment when they calmly pose for a photo.
Enjoying this:
This cuddling episode lasted for a while. My husband took this photo of us and some minutes later we continued with the walk. The sun was slowly getting lower and brought the golden colours to this Sunday afternoon walk.
The shadows also became longer. Where I am in this photo?
A bit further from the port, there was a board explaining about a shipwreck that can be found in the sea. I didn't know that, although some years ago we used to come here to the beach. Seems that it was a ship of the Roman Empire. For sure, we can't remember this, it happened so long time ago 😁
But for more information, we can read from this board!
A few years ago my son and my nieces used to jump from those rocks into the sea. They were brave - I would not do that (at my age haha)
The sun was already setting when we turned back toward to port and to get back to the park with the moving staircase. As I mentioned, they led us to a chocolate shop. This time it was my son's idea to go there, all together!
Villajoyosa is a town of chocolate - like this mural confirms:
La vila de xocolate - The chocolate village!
The walk finished in this chocolate shop, Valor. Not bad for a Sunday afternoon leg-stretching activity ;)
P.S. Midnight just passed at my place... so officially it is already Thursday (since 8 minutes). But I have some justified reasons why I am a few minutes late with this Wednesday Walk ;)
