Edificio Goya
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The Flight of the Snowbirds
... gilthead bream to cook on the Cadac.
That night it rained and operation desert storm came into force. Not the liberation of the Kuwait oil wells or the invasion of Iraq, but the strange atmospheric conditions which lift Saharan sand up to cloud level and dump it hundreds of miles away, in this case onto Vilanova. We have had this occasionally in England, appearing as a fine layer of dust or a speckled covering. In the ...
¿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
... up on our side included a large and regal looking chap with some kind of a fur robe who ended up standing right in front of us, which meant that we didn't have a great view at the time. We reasoned that when the band struck up with Amparito Roca he would join in the dance and we would be able to see everything that was going on. We were wrong. This giant for some reason didn't dance, which meant that we really couldn't see much of what was going on, without ...
Vis Mig in the morning, castles at night
... We noticed that they had a rather interesting-sounding Menu del Dia for €12.
There were lots of birds in the harbour and it didn't take long to find a few Audouins Gulls amonsgt the Yellow-legged, Mediterranean and Black-headed Gull. I tried hard to find Slender-billed Gulls which are commoner than Audouin's and are present in the nearby Ebro Delta but with no success. There were terns about too. Sandwich Terns called often and there was at least on ...
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 ...