Hotel Marina Tarragona

... information board and Kim said what is that smell and she looked down and there was a 2 m long catfish decaying in the sun. Very smelly! You could take a boat trip but since the wind was still trying to blow us over we decided to give it a miss. I even tried my hand at flying as the wind was so hard – by opening my jacket and using it as wings but no luck.

... the old town. The highlight of the day though was the 8Euro lunch – menu of the day. For this we got a Catalan soup which had noodles, beans, cabbage, dumplings, chicken and a few other veg. Then main course was spare ribs with sautéed onions and tomatoes, then dessert was Catalan crème, all washed down with a jug of wine ...

... a few hours. Not a hard task for them as there were plenty of cafes and shops nearby. The surf was head high but pretty gutless, not great but I never expected to get the board out in the Med so it was a real bonus.

After drying up the next priority was to find a bar showing the Barcalona vs Real Madrid football match probably the biggest game in the La Liga schedule. Not surprisingly everyone was showing the game the difficulty proved to find one ...

Départ de la plage vers 9h avec comme but de rejoindre ce soir le Delta de l'Ebra, une réserve naturelle au bord de la mer. J'ai environ 80km à faire. Je suis une route de bord de mer pour éviter l'autoroute, mais elle me fait faire beaucoup plus de kils que prévu.. je suis dans un cul-de-sac, je dois remonter vers les montagnes pour retrouver une route... je traverse des champs d'olivier, c'est ...

... tomber bientôt, mais j'aimerais faire encore quelques kilomètres aujourd'hui... je réfléchis... quand tout à coup, apparaîssent deux voyageurs sac au dos qui m'approchent et me demandent d'où je viens.. "Switzerland"... AAahh et voilà qu'ils me parlent en swizertütsch! Ce sont deux argoviens qui ont beaucoup voyagés en vélo (ils ont fait Suisse-Singapour ...

... natuerlich.

Gutes Essen, z.B. im Palau del Baro in Tarragona wird durch maxxF auf dem Balkon oder in der Wohnung verdient, schon dreimal komplett durchgefuehrt, auch durch Klimmzüge (inzwischen 10) am Strand an den Gestaengen der Sonnendaecher, allerdings nur abseits von Karin......

Inzwischen habe ich auch hier schon drei Tauchgänge im Parc Subaquatic gemacht, der letzte bei Sichtweite unter 3m, wobei wir die Orientierung verloren hatten ...

This place deserves an entry all of its own, and I know, as I start to write this, I'm really not going to have the words to convey the depth of this little piece of earth......

A little history lesson to set the scene .. Tarragona was first occupied by the Romans in 218BC (and we know how brillant and thorough they were, hence there buildings are still around!). It was ruled by Augustus, and in 27BC he ...

... children to sing to it and beat it with sticks until it "poops" out the presents! The Spanish never cease to amaze with their bizarre traditions =P The girls were tempted into stopping at every second shop to evaluate the post-Christmas bargains, while I waited with outside a disinterested Steven; I felt like crying every time I saw the prices - despite the discounts they were unaffordable thanks to the weak Aust dollar! We ended our night out at a café for some ...

... ha un altre ritme,un temps organitzat en espiral progressiu, mig descobert mig inventat. Han passat visites i n'hem fet d'altres. Persones que arriben, persones que se'n va, molts viatges sense bloc i molts blocs sense viatge. Ens hem perdut a Internet i entre les canyes, vora la via del tren; ens hem banyat i ens ha plogut; hem llegit menys del que voldríem i gestionat molt més del que demanava el cos, però ara sembla ...

... sunnies on enjoying coffee and tapas. We did the usual and got a map, then headed down towards the sea for the roman amphitheatre. Fantastic location for an amphitheatre but it wasn't as spectacular as others we'd seen. They'd tried to partially rebuild it, not a great job, although it was lovely to sit on top of the walls and look out over the ocean. We went back up the hill and over to the 'Roman Circus ...