Urbis Centre Tarragona

The wind howled and rocked Scooby all last night. We all thought we were going to be blown away! Caught the bus into Tarragona, which the LP sells as an eternally sunny port with lots of interesting Roman sites. Well being a Monday all of the sites were closed but we did manage to view the amphitheatre from the road and wander ...

... 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 ...

... 8 mois!). Eux vont dormir sur la plage pas loin et ils me proposent d'aller avec eux. Nous faisons quelques courses pour le souper (et oui, on cuisine aussi sur les plages) et passons une agréable soirée au bord de l'eau avec la lune qui brille au dessus de nous. Je suis bien entourée pour mon premier camping sur la plage, me sens plus qu'en sécurité!!

... 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 ...

... bekommen, namens Uwe, der sich als ca. 120 kg schwerer, arbeitsloser Lastwagenfahrer entpuppte, mit Riesen-Spinnentattou auf dem mächtigen Oberarm, den entsprechenden Sprüchen, also das volle Programm,....aber immerhin Dive-Master. Mit dem war ich Tauchen im Parc Subaquatic in Tarragona, dem einzigen, eingermaßen passablen Tauchgebiet hier in der Gegend, und habe tatsächlich mit ihm als kompetentem Guide mein erstes Schiffswrack betaucht, die ...

Waking up by rolling a few meters on the sand into the sea is fun (not as fun as shirt ball though). After leaving town we realised there was road works on the road we needed to be on. It was begining to seem like there would have to be a massive detour but by skillfully pointing at my bike and the road many times until the workers let us go down it; despite massive diggers swinging about. Spanish ...

... and it almost made Alex sick (see picture on Facebook).

Then we cycled another 30 miles down the coast where we fell asleep on another beach. It really sounds cool waking up on beaches alot but you normally wake up about 10 times in the night with ants all over your face or a massive tractor a few meters from your head. Fact: beaches are cool in the day and for the begining of the night but they are rarely cool to sleep on at night.

... space, filled with 16th century tapestries, gorgeous stained glass, and 15th century stalls made of walnut, you really are in another world. The main alter, made of marble was carved in the 13th century, and although photos are permitted, when we entered, on a Sunday, at the end of a church service, complete with choir and encompassing piped organ music throughout, it was almost sacreligious to start 'snapping ...

... the Republican era).[1] The Roman colony founded at Tarraco had the full name of Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco. Lunch with the Mirs at Hopitalet, a seaside town that has developed tremendously since Faith visited 10 years prior. Stopped at a beautiful parador ALCANIZ for tea. http://spainparador.com/parador-alcaniz .htm

Bé...demà marxo no sóc conscient. Tinc un mes per davant per complir un somni, la patagonia. Certament crec que ho tinc tot, com de costum no faig la llista de la roba que la meva mare em recomana. Total? per molt que faci llistes, si perdo las coses no les recuperaré... i si no perdo la llista. La motxilla, pensant en no portar pes...però necessito roba d´hivern i roba d´estiu tant a ...