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Climbing in Siurana Part 2

A travel blog entry by jbwoods

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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

A travel blog entry by jbwoods

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... 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.

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... trying to avoid being trampled - everybody likes to pat the mule on the nose. The little girl must have been given instructions to cling on tight but she managed to maintain a beaming smile, even when the mule was rearing in the air. It looked like fun.

After the beasts, including some less formal unofficial entrants, although the cardboard box Aliga had long since been destroyed and converted into rectangular frisbees, and bands had started, we walked up the steps, away ...

A long arm and a long day of Santa Tecla

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... space so if you want a seat, early arrival is recommended. The performace lasts for about 30 minutes and is notable as much for its setting and the lighting as for the symbolism of the story which involves lust, cruelty, botched murder attempts and wolves. Arms feature heavily towards the end, as you might hope.

We were a little surprised that this year's performance was a repeat of 2010's albeit with different personnel, but on reflection we had no reason to expect ...

More Santa Tecla

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... Petit. We reckoned we'd walked far enough, so standing in a queue didn't have much appeal but with and hour to go before the performance the idea of sitting outside a cafe drinking Vichy Catalan (other drinks are available) did.

Serrallonga, real name Joan Sala i Ferrer, was a seventeenth century Catalan bandit who has become almost legendary as the centuries have progressed and we watched groups of youngters in costume re-enact episodes from his life.

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