Sant Joan Palamos
Av de la Llibertat, 79 Palamos, Costa Brava, Catalonia, 17230, Spain and Canary Islands
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From one sort of 'mad' to another
From the Modernism that is evident in the architecture in Barcelona to the cubism and surrealism of Dali - all the creative senses have been pushed to their limits.
We left Barcelona early in the morning and headed toward the village of Figueras, where Salvidor Dali was born in 1904.
We went straight to the museum which Dali, himself created to store his work and the works of some of his closest artist friends. The building itself was ...
Trips from Lagrasse
... this buffet was seriously impressive. It was a good way to sample a few exotic French delicacies (like snails) without having to sheepishly send back unfinished plates at a more conventional restaurant.
We celebrated the end of this wonderful chapter with a trip to the tiny town of Fontjoncouse to dine at its flash restaurant, Le Vieux Puits; a 3 Michelin star affair. The food was excellent but didn’t quite reach the heights of some of Sydney’s ...
Girona
From Barcelona, we headed north to the city of Girona, which is a small city of about 100,000 people. It's the Ryanair hub for Barcelona (flights to Barcelona fly to Barcelona-Girona), despite the city being some 1.5 hours from Barcelona by high-speed train (150km/h).
Girona is a compact city: all sights can be seen in a 30 minute walk by foot. It has a mostly-intact old ...
Old friend, good times!
Picked up the camper van today after a huge delay...I guess they were working on Spanish time. We were supposed to get it at 1030am so we left Alex's house in time to get there, on the way though we got the text saying that the people who had it before us parked it illegally and it had got towed and sent to the municipal something or other. So in the mean time we baked ourselves ...
Day 11 - Carcassonne to Tamariu
... headed south - and up.
I thoroughly enjoyed the rural, twisty roads through the foothills of the Pyrenees, but Ian (I found out later) not so much. I can sympathize with him, as it wasn't a trip I would have enjoyed as a kid. I stopped at a super market to pick up some road snacks before we really started ascending. Before too long, ...



