La Quadra Hotel Girona

... to be less rich and instead of flowers lining the ends of the rows of vines there were now cactus everywhere. Down the other side of the hill took us to a restored 13th century windmill amongst olive groves.

We headed down to Dan’s Yacht at 6pm and over a few bottles of wine we found out what Dan’s story was. He’s a fisherman in Alaska and works between 3-6 months of the year as a skipper on a fishing boat. The rest of ...

... by sangria which was followed by port. A very satisfying meal after a long day.

The following day loomed bright and beautiful. Milly had been regaling us with stories of hot chocolate and churros so we went in search of them – to no avail, but we did find that overnight a huge market had set up along the waterfront in L’Escala. There were plenty of bargains here, and it attracted a lot of customers from across the border in ...

... with the amazing view of the swimming pool only a few metres from the French doors of the unit with the sea only a little way beyond that. Stunning!

We decided to reorganize our luggage and pack only enough for the night away and leave the remainder in the room so there would be more room for Chris & Milly’s bags in the car. Things couldn’t have worked out better! It looked like our stay in L’Escala would be a real relaxing break.

firstly this keyboard has the letters in aalll the wrong plqces qnd hqrd to find punctuation so sorry for the spelling....

we are nearly finished with france after two weeks, we have been very lucky and had sun the whole way!!!! no one told us that pretty much all the camping closes in france at the start of september so we have struggled to find places to stay; but , managed!! hoping that tomorrow we will get to ...

... and also you can do a lot of activities. So we thought that we could speak about our surroundings that we know very well and perhaps that can help the people who wants to visit our region.
We hope you will enjoy, the nature, landscape and monuments from the Alt Empordà - Girona - Spain.

Come and discover them!

ok, so we got to the mountains wed night....and it has been nothing but chill out since then. we're staying at hannah's dad's flat in this little village called Sahorre. Talk about peaceful.......We've just been reading, hanging out, cooking, etc.....a welcome break from the touristy stuff we had been doing up till now....and yes, i see comments that imply we are only eating and drinking our way through france, but ...

Hello again,

apologies for the express entries this morning. WE have had no good internet in the last two days but really wanted to update you guys on our trip....
Now I have access to the net - but it won´t read my card to upload pic- tabarnouche....

En route to Cadaques I started thinking of a few funny moments that have occured over the past 2 weeks... I want to share with you and hopefully will make you smile or even beter laugh ...

I had a great time in france


We went to france this year and it was a great excitement.
If you ...

... by a gelato place to get a little treat and walked around. Popped into a couple of churches and interesting shops/corners. I had bought postcards in Barcelona and had written them on the airplane rides to Czech, so I was on the search for some stamps. At this point, the camera I was borrowing had done something funky to my memory card and had reformatted itself(aka, lost all my Prague photos... but there is software to recover them so I'm not too concerned, but I had lost the ...

... another walk around and some dinner. We found a kind of Moroccan place but as the Spanish tend to keep late hours they weren't open until 9. So we went for a couple of beers somewhere, then went back for dinner and rioja. We had a long drive though because we were staying just outside Barcelona. It took bloody ages to find the stupid hotel but we got there eventually and crashed. Taragona was next with roman ruins at the sea front.