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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
... and some adults.
Our backpack was filled with goodies which we did whilst stepping back out onto the balcony to watch the Arrencada dels Gegants, with numerous bands, giants, nans and others passing beneath us in a carnival atmosphere. The Hotel Placa de la Font is a favourite of ours, not least for the superb views that you can get of some of the events of Santa Tecla.
With a short while to wait before the return of the parade and the ...
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
... have a few rooms with balconies and square views and during the Santa Tecla festival you really should have one, so no big surprise, really.
Taxis in Tarragona are expensive, certainly compared with where I live and definitely compared with Barcelona. I have no idea why this should be. Perhaps there are too many and there are long waits between fares but we have noted before how costly short journeys are. We were to take a couple of much longer trips whilst in Barcelona ...
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 ...