Hotel Golden Port Salou
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The Flight of the Snowbirds
... at this guy, thinking he looked familiar and he stared at me and suddenly burst out "John Jefferis!!! It was Doug Lowther, someone I worked with 35 years ago in Hull. Our paths had crossed several times since, both working for Yorkshire Bank, but we had not met for at least twenty years. What a small world this is.
Most of the week was spent relaxing, feeding the ducks and swans that clustered around the camp lake side, and watching ...
¿Are we in Rome? ¡No, Just Tarragona!
... on our way to Valencia outside the city. Of course, Zack and I saw many similar structures during our time in Rome and Italy, but mom and dad were thrilled to be walking on streets and seeing buildings that had lasted thousands of years. From my perspective it was very interesting to see how efficient and structured the Romans were. We all learn that fact in school, but then to see ...
The Baixada de l'Aliga
It's a day that I now look forward to all year. The Baixada de l'Aliga is incredible.
The weather was much improved compared to yesterday but the blue skies contained none of the interesting birds from yesterday. We were planning staying out until around 4 in the morning so felt that we should get some provisions to see us through the night and in particular for the expected long wait on the cathedral steps after 9 p.m so after our breakfast in the Noria ...
Vis Mig in the morning, castles at night
... being renovated for years and there is a temporary structure there for the time being which will be missed when its gone. Cafe Lizarran has a good spot outside the market and sells Asturian cider so we thought "why not". As we were getting near I noticed two large birds overhead and we wrestled the binoculars out of the back pack to discover that they were Honey Buzzards. We also noted that they were accompanied by several small falcons and lots of Alpine Swifts.
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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 ...