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¿Are we in Rome? ¡No, Just Tarragona!
¡Buenos! So we only spent one night and one day in Tarragona, but it was as if we had been transported thousands of years into the past. After we FINALLY managed to find the hotel, we spent the next day walking through the old city which is chock full of old Roman architecture. Some highlights: a defensive tower, the entire city wall, and an small colliseum. We also saw an ...
The Baixada de l'Aliga
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[Update - after a bit of debate that had contributions from several bird identifcation expert, the consensus view was that the bird was a Sub-alpine Warbler which was quite pleasing because we had never photgraphed an example of this rather shy species before. Not common but definitely a species that could be expected in the region at this time of year]
Of Tarragona's important archaeological sites, ...
Vis Mig in the morning, castles at night
... s Correfoc on Placa Nova. We've still to see the adult Correfoc in Tarragona which I'm sure will be wild and exciting but the junior partner is always good too, so we found a good spot to stand and wait and settled down to enjoy the fun. We ended up standing next to an Englishman who had lived in Tarragona for almost a year and who was enjoying his first Santa Tecla and who seemed quite surprised by what the children are allowed to get up to. We stood watching as the ...
Santa Tecla
... convenient for the parts of Tarragona most tourists want to see and probably needs a taxi ride which will add to the cost and the journey time.
For us, five minutes and €8 in a taxi (it's a steep walk from the station to Placa de la Font but not very far) saw us outside the Hostal Noria where we checked James in before crossing the corner of the square to our by now old favourite, Hotel Placa de la Font, where we ended up in a room we've had before, although to be fair ...
On the road again
Tarragona Had a lovely relaxing week at the villa. Set off for Tarragona heading north. Was a long hot ride, unfortunately saw a really nasty accident which we must have missed by minutes. There seemed to be only one car involved but it had completely flipped over and driver was ...