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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.
... about at the entrance. Perhaps we were at an advantage because we had had the experience at Circ Roma, so we were not surprised that the staff were recording the country of origin of all visitors, but the French group who went in first seemed nonplussed by this. However the group behind them were thrown into disarray by the query "Pais?". JD, reasoning that if they did not understand this question that works reasonably well in Catalan, Spanish and French, they might stand a ...
A long arm and a long day of Santa Tecla
... human towers 6, 7, 8, 9 or even 10 levels high. The police often have to close roads leading to the squares were most castells are built to avoid public safety risks, so if there is some going on when you're in the area, get there early.
The actual events are tense affairs because everyone is aware of the dangers but their motto is Força, equilibri, valor i seny" (Strength, balance, courage and reason) and all of that is much in evidence. Practice sessions on the other ...
More Santa Tecla
... pleased about it but after hanging around for about 20 minutes whilst they inspected it, they sent us on our way. We had been prepared to pay for the car parking if necessary but were pleased not to, because parking in central Tarragona is surprisingly expensive.
Breakfast was acquired in the small cafe a few doors down from Hertz where they probably don't get loads of tourists, but the coffees and bocadillos were pretty good.
There was nothing on the Santa ...



