Comte Dempuries Girona
Gran Reserva Girona, Catalonia, 17487, Spain and Canary Islands
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2011/2012
... company and the zany games we played!
We left Glasgow with the caravan on the 27th and spent a couple of nights en route to Dover. The traffic on the 27th was a nightmare but otherwise things went to plan and we arrived in Calais around 11.15 am on the 29th. With very few campsites open we used the motorway more than usual and just coughed up for the tolls.
Three ...
From one sort of 'mad' to another
... left Figueras and headed toward the most eastern point of Spain to see the lighthouse, where we had lunch before returning to the fishing village of Cadaques and to the home of Dali.
Now a museum, it is easy to see the inspiratation in nature that Dali used in much of his work. Only allowing a few people in at a time, the house was a very interesting place to visit. The land around the house was used for live groves and much artwork ...
Trips from Lagrasse
... from the Mediterranean (due to the changing course of the Aude river).
The city’s impressive undercover market was good fun to explore and its enormous Archbishops Palace cathedral is breathtaking (the only Gothic cathedral on the Mediterranean that rivals those in northern France, according to the tourist propaganda). On the way home we stopped at Les Grand Buffets. Incongruously situated at an indoor sports centre, the variety and quality of food and ...
Imitating Italy!!
... the pretty gardens by the city wall. On the way back we crossed the river and walked along side it. The way the buildings are at the side of the river really does look like somewhere in northern Italy, it's quite strange! Girona is a very pretty place, and despite it being July it was very ...
Day 11 - Carcassonne to Tamariu
For the first time since Geneva, I can report that we woke up to overcast skies. The hotel's two dogs kept up company during the expensive, but good, breakfast. After eating, we took time to return to the pool so Ian could get his morning exercise ahead of what promised to be a rather long car ride. We hit the road around 11:00, got gas in the ...



