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The Flight of the Snowbirds
... were right out of sandwiches. Never mind, we’ll have two plates of tapas. He brought the beers and advised us there was only one plate left, so we shared five olives, four anchovies, three small bits of bread with tomato paste and two tomatoes between us. The café was also offering crepes, but they were out of those too! We just had to have an ice cream later on.
Next day it was time to continue the flight south, to Vilanova Park ...
¿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
... in case you weren't sure.
A new Roman site has been opened up on the way to Serallo so we took a small diversion to have a look at it. It's less dramatic than most of the city's antiquities but presumably adds to Tarragona's claim to be a World Heritage site. One of the highlights of the visit was seeing a domestic cat carrying a whole adult feral pigeon across the square and then scambling the steep slope/cliff into which the Roman site was built. It seemed ...
Santa Tecla
... train and we had about 40 minutes for the Tarragona train after buying tickets (€7.05 for singles) so as it was international "Talk like a pirate day" we went to the Ars Cafe (gettit?) to wait.
A short time later we were on thew train to Tarragona, (standing room only, again) arriving at the city station about 65 minutes later, although note that there are two main stations and a variety of journey times, with the fastest arriving at the Camp de Mars station which is ...
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