Sevilla Cordoba Jerez Apartments Salou

... the old town. The highlight of the day though was the 8Euro lunch – menu of the day. For this we got a Catalan soup which had noodles, beans, cabbage, dumplings, chicken and a few other veg. Then main course was spare ribs with sautéed onions and tomatoes, then dessert was Catalan crème, all washed down with a jug of wine ...

... a few hours. Not a hard task for them as there were plenty of cafes and shops nearby. The surf was head high but pretty gutless, not great but I never expected to get the board out in the Med so it was a real bonus.

After drying up the next priority was to find a bar showing the Barcalona vs Real Madrid football match probably the biggest game in the La Liga schedule. Not surprisingly everyone was showing the game the difficulty proved to find one ...

... de ces marais... le paradis se transforme en piège... mes bonnes vieilles angoisses de l'obscurité resurgissent plus forte que jamais... je roule, je roule, je roule... je ne sens plus mon corps... j'en pleure... encore 1 heure de route et je parviens enfin à un camping... il est 21h et j'ai roulé toute la journée... je n'en peux plus... je m'écroule après avoir bu une bière et monté la tente...

... tomber bientôt, mais j'aimerais faire encore quelques kilomètres aujourd'hui... je réfléchis... quand tout à coup, apparaîssent deux voyageurs sac au dos qui m'approchent et me demandent d'où je viens.. "Switzerland"... AAahh et voilà qu'ils me parlent en swizertütsch! Ce sont deux argoviens qui ont beaucoup voyagés en vélo (ils ont fait Suisse-Singapour ...

... natuerlich.

Gutes Essen, z.B. im Palau del Baro in Tarragona wird durch maxxF auf dem Balkon oder in der Wohnung verdient, schon dreimal komplett durchgefuehrt, auch durch Klimmzüge (inzwischen 10) am Strand an den Gestaengen der Sonnendaecher, allerdings nur abseits von Karin......

Inzwischen habe ich auch hier schon drei Tauchgänge im Parc Subaquatic gemacht, der letzte bei Sichtweite unter 3m, wobei wir die Orientierung verloren hatten ...

...nach dem Ärger und der Niedergeschlagenheit über den Diebstahl: Ersatz Mastercard innerhalb von 24 h aus USA erhalten (hat allerdings ca. 40 min Gespräch mit Mastercard USA und Deutschland gekostet); neues, billiges Telefon für Karin erstanden, mit spanischer Bedienungsanleitung; zwei neue Brillen für Karin...Grundausstattung ist wieder da und der Urlaub beginnt nochmal.

Über ein Tauchernetzwerk hatte ich Kontakt zu einem in Tarragona lebenden ...

... back. At this point the parents of the boy came over and put a nappy on him.

A few hours later I managed to drag myself from the floor where i had lay laughing since the incident. We then found a nice bridge to sleep under which happened to smell like ****, be infestd with rats, and was incredibly noisy from the people walking above. Sleeping aint easy for free. Homeless have it hard man.

We woke up with ALL of our stuff after having a hassle free night. Well, apart from the surronding gays and tractors. We spent a majority of the day chilling on the beach playing kick the bean bag and a new game called shirt ball.

Me and Alex invented shirt ball as a way of cleaning our t-shirts in the sea without getting bored. The rules are simple, you basically tie a tshirt up in to a small ball and throw it at each other as ...

... and a buffet breakfast! We really just relaxed on the beach and soaked it all in. It truly was a vacation on our vacation! We came to Barcelona today and I think I´m ready to be back in a city with culture and history :p Hopefully while I´m here I can update all the photos that I´ve been lacking to because this hostel has free Internet. We´re off to explore the city now, I´ll let you know how it goes :)

... and I just search for the simple person I am. It is easy to get wrapped up in the long boring hours of school, in the planned out hour by hour day....it is easy to forget to stop. I am stopping. There was a part of this chapter, as I was stumbling clumsily through, that I realized how disconnected I have become with the world. Normalcy is something I never thought I would cling to. Normalcy is something I have not yet found within my life, and ...