We are in Spain

On Friday we drove on from Montelimar, France.  The country side started changing, looking a little more dry and with not so many trees.  It was still pretty, though, and once we got to Spain, we started seeing castles and look-outs on some of the hills in the distance.  It was so interesting and it made us think of what went on around there so many hundreds of years ago.  No highways, no easy way to communicate - that kind of stuff.  Here are a few pictures of some hills with lookouts.
This was the best picture I could get of a castle on a hill in the distance.

And here's one with a castle AND lookouts

There were lots of hills with these kinds of lookouts most of the way along the road.  Around 5pm, we decided we'd better start thinking about where we were going to spend the night.  Guillermo picked out a town along the beach that was coming up named Peñiscola that seemed a good stopping place so we pulled off the road when we got there and stopped at the first hotel that came up.  Although the place looked like it was going to be very expensive, it turned out to be very reasonable, so we gladly took a room there.  Then we decided to drive to the waterfront to walk around a bit and to find a place to have dinner.  Here is a picture of the castle of Peñiscola.

And this is where we had dinner in the evening, at one of the tables right on the edge so we could see the water.