Hotel Marina Tarragona
Augusta 151 Tarragona, Costa Dorada, Catalonia, 43007, Spain and Canary Islands
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The Tortosa and the Hare
A princess for a night
Dad told us that there would be a surprise stop on the way back to Barcelona. So when he told me it was Tortosa I thought he had blew the surprise. No. The surprise was a freaking castle.
The GPS kept saying "u-turn" but Dad ignored it, and our own protests, and kept driving up ...
Climbing in Siurana Part 2
Caught the train from Barcelona back to Reus and was picked up by Matthieu and team Swiss, and Sasha from Russia, whom I think had been adopted in my absense. We stopped at a wine Co-op in Cornudella, bought a 5L plastic bottle of red wine, and headed back towards Siurana.
We camped in a pullout along the way to Montsant. We woke the next day to cloudy, cold and rainy weather. Luckily the area where we went to climb ...
Climbing in Siurana Part 1
... making the climbing fairly difficult. We set up camp and the crew took off climbing, while I had a rest day, recovering from the previous night/morning in Madrid. I did have dinner cooking when they returned and we had an early night.
The next day we went out climbing and it was pretty hot so we climbed in the morning in the shade and then the afternoon on the opposite side of the canyon once ...
An early night? Don't even think about it.
... the sweetshop around the corner and to the nearest mamadeta outlet, but shortly after 10 even that option started to become unfeasible as the crowd started to grow bigger and closer. All the seating area on the steps was taken up and then the people seated grew by about 20% as late-arriving friends turned up. If you strongly object to being climbed on or over, or to passing glasses of beer etc. to people behind you, then stay well away. It's all very good natured, though and there is ...
A long arm and a long day of Santa Tecla
... The orchestra are very good and the lietmotifs quite appealing. A pleasant way to wind down after the thrill of castellers.
Suitably spiritually refreshed we then went in search of something less sophisticated to round the eveing off with. There was a concert billed for Placa de la Font and we still had some vodka to finish off (it goes off, you know - it does) so we took off down the steps and own the hill, much easier than climbing up, to the vicinity of our hotel. ...


