My parents had their vacation home 'Villa Mira' built about 40 years ago. I spent all my childhood vacations here in Denia and have many happy memories here. I've been coming to Denia for 40 years, first with my parents, brother and sisters, and later on with my husband and our two kids, and I want to celebrate this with a couple of caches, the 'Childhood Memories Cache' (CMC) series 
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Vacationing in the mid seventies in Spain was still a bit pioneering. My parents and their neighbors belonged to the first generation of foreigners spending their vacations here on a regular basis. They were the only foreign tourists among the Spanish tourists, most of whom came from Madrid. It were different times. The Guardia Civil patrolled the beaches, looking for smugglers and guarding the good morals on the beach. I remember my mom was sunbathing, lying on her stomach and she had loostened the straps of her bikini on her back, so she wouldn't have a white stripe mark. That was not to the liking of the Guardia Civil, who corrected my mom and ordered her to fasten the straps again. Quite different from the clothing (or scarcity thereof) I sometimes see nowadays on the beach...
They could be kind too though. I remember one day, my brother, my sisters and I could all pose on the beach wearing the characteristic 'torero' like cap of a guardia civil, while our parents took pictures of us. This happened close to where we've hidden this cache.
The 'beach' Guardia Civil operated from the building with the round white tower, currently housing a surf school. It is one of the few remaining buildings that were already on the beach when we first came here in 1974. Therefore, it has monumental status in my mind. 
