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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
... de l’Aliga as an unofficial entrant - there are usually several of these, often accompanied by their own musicians and never allowed entry into the Ajuntament at the end. We were looking forward to seeing this as we made our way from the Ball de Gegants to the steps of the cathedral where the number of people already camped out to wait for the start of the parade was even greater than at 9 p.m. last year. Last year we had sat near the walls which allowed us ...
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 ...
On the road again
... inside. Don't think he made it out: ( Tarragona was vey big with a medieval area and a small beach and working port. We had a wander around, stopped for a drink and tapas, a few beers and we were done in. Coffee in a pavement cafe before setting off for France the following ...
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