Spille Beach
Spille Beach is our "house beach" and about 7 km far from our place - easily to reach for trained walkers or cyclists, although there are some steep parts.
Of course, it is more comfortable with a car, but in summer you often have a huge traffic jam during the late morning and the late evening, because you are not the only one who want's to enjoy a beuatiful day at this beach.
Unlike many of the northern beaches, the local muncipality has realized that giant hotels are not that attractive and decided for gentle tourism. New building are not allowed to have more than three floors or be too close to each other.
From autumn till spring, the little village Spille looks like a ghost town. You mainly see workers who repair or rebuild hotels and bars. But in the early summer the place rises from its comatose sleep and is favoured especially by Albanians and Italians. But even during the peak holiday season, Spille is comparable quiet and relaxed.
The seafront is lined with a lot, partly very charming bars and restaurants and the pine forest, right behind the beach, offers a cool and gratuitous place in the shadow during the hottest hours.
Another highlight are the mind-blowing sunsets! We enjoyed innumerous of them during those weeks, when we had to be here for negotiations with the lawyer, the notary, the arcitect, and had to live in our camper or tents in the little pine forest, as the our property wasn't drivable at the beginning.
Every evening we were pulled by invisible strings down to the sea, and we sat silently and watched the colours. Afterwards we sometimes went to the discotheque in the pine wood - shimmering with hundreds fairy lights and full of old and young people who join the traditional round dances.
Spille Beach is still - either in the pine wood or a bit southward the busy seafront - a nice place for mobile homes if you don't need much amenities. You can drive quite close to the sea and if you are lucky, you can buy the freshest fish ever early in the morning between 6 and 7 from the returning fishermen.
A nice place of excursion with a short but beautiful ride along the waterside is the fortress Bashtova.
In ancient times, when the shoreline reached further into the inland, it was an important harbour for shipping goods.
