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¿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
... a blocked off window’s sill as extra seating at a different angle and there was space in this area again so we staked our claim before someone else snapped it up. Sitting on stone steps for 3 hours is not very comfortable but it beats sitting on the ground.
James disappeared to find replacement mamadetas whilst we sorted out some supper from the delicacies in our backpack and this helped to pass some of the time as crowd built up and the excitement ...
Vis Mig in the morning, castles at night
... like castellers so we squeezed through the crowds and worked our way inside. It was quite an intense session with lots of structures built and they weren't asking for assistance from the spectators, which was a bit of a disappointment, but we did get to go up in the gallery to get an aerial view, which was a first for me and was quite instructive because it allowed for a different apreciation of what is involved in getting one of these complex towers built and taken down. ...
Santa Tecla
... was the Cercavila starting in about an hour and the various elements were already forming up in Placa de la Font.
We stopped to see them all safely underway and as they take quite a long route around town thought we might intercept them in Placa del Rei but despite taking a short cut by the time we got near it was clear that the crowd of spectators was huge and that we would not be able to get through, so we stopped for a while in front of the headquarters of the Joves de Tarragona ...
On the road again
Tarragona Had a lovely relaxing week at the villa. Set off for Tarragona heading north. Was a long hot ride, unfortunately saw a really nasty accident which we must have missed by minutes. There seemed to be only one car involved but it had completely flipped over and driver was ...