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Up and down the Ebro
... part of the drive towards the coast was pleasant, passing through sparsely populated and attractive limestone uplands with some evidence of viticulture. The roads were very quiet indeed but I managed to remember to stay on the wrong side of the road reasonably consistently.
Eventually we dropped down to parallel the Ebro and by-passed Tortosa on the way to Amposta which is situated on the edge of the Ebro delta. The closer we got to the delta, the more herons and egrets ...
¿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
... de Gegants we took our time and eventually returned to the square in time to get our first mamadeta of the night from Sirvent which we were able to confirm was still the best that we'd had. We hadn't consumed much of them before the first bands and gegants started to appear at the far end of the square.
For no particular reason, the three Balls de Gegants that Julie and I have seen before have all been witnessed from the side of Placa de la Font nearer ...
Vis Mig in the morning, castles at night
... with the Commons. I'm pretty certain that we could hear Little Terns as well from time to time but we couldn't locate them.
On the route back to the city centre we came upon a bakery that had some of the multi-coloured 'festival cakes' on display. James had tried a green one last year so I felt honour bound to go for a red one. It was ... sweet. Very. Julie's turn in 2013 I reckon and only one colour to go.
Amongst the events planned for tonight was ...
Santa Tecla
... was the Cercavila starting in about an hour and the various elements were already forming up in Placa de la Font.
We stopped to see them all safely underway and as they take quite a long route around town thought we might intercept them in Placa del Rei but despite taking a short cut by the time we got near it was clear that the crowd of spectators was huge and that we would not be able to get through, so we stopped for a while in front of the headquarters of the Joves de Tarragona ...
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