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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.
... br> Later on, Tony, Kay and James helpfully offered alternative possibilities including Bel...arus and Bel...ize for countries beginning with 'Bel' but they didn't guess at Belfast. I suppose that we might be being unkind but we felt that JD's assistance was ignored more out of a fear of strangers and not wanting to acknowledge the presence of others in a strange, foreign situation. It wasn't that they didn't hear her, but more that they did not want to.
Although the Roman ...
A long arm and a long day of Santa Tecla
... the sunlight casting long shadows in the narrow lanes. We stopped in at the Tourist Information office on Carrer Major to find out whether there were any rules about getting a seat at a table for the Concert Vermut and were delighted to discover El Lleo (the grown ups version) had got there before us.
A walk around the old city helped to justify breakfast and we found evidence just in front of the cathedral that the mamadetas had been selling well, with a box full of ...
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 ...



