On my last trip over to Spain I made my usual trip up to the Republican defensive positions on the headland at Santa Pola to check on the progress with the refurbishment work. Essentially, the defences are being turned into a bit of a tourist attraction as well as featuring on some great new mountain bike routes. I dont have a problem with that, but what I do have a problem with is the local PP council painting the guardhouse a ridiculous shade of blue and adorning it with hippy grafitti. That is frankly and insult to the republican defenders who fought to stop the fascist planes as they wheeled in from the Med to bomb Alicante. I wandered away cursing and through the pine groves found what was clearly a bomb crater and after taking some snaps I picked up a strange chunky looking pieced of metal, twisted, scored and obviously subjected to extreme heat at some point. Shrapnel - either from a shell casing or an enemy bomb. The Mahou bottle is purely for perspective but its a piece of the Civil War history and sits on the shelf now in pride of place.
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